Corporate tax avoidance and firm value: evidence from Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8069.2016v13n30p114Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between corporate tax avoidance and firm value in Brazil. Although one might expect that tax avoidance practices result in value generation for the shareholder, alternative theories suggest that this not always happens; implicit agency costs that have been recently detected by the literature, may exceed the tax saving benefits, causing value destruction. Verifying what happens in Brazil, it was performed a panel data analysis including 323 companies traded in the stock market from 2006 to 2012, totalizing 1,704 firm-year observations. It was adopted BTD, controlled by accruals, as proxy for tax avoidance and Tobin’s q as proxy for firm value. The results show that tax avoidance and firm value are negatively associated. It was also evaluated the corporative governance effect, finding limited disclosures that can mitigate the value destruction.
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