Advances in taxation: Vol. 22

In the latest volume of Advances in Taxation, series editor John Hasseldine presents studies from expert contributors exploring topics such as: corporate tax planning, taxrelated accounting misstatements and uncertain tax positions, financial statement readability, the tax effects of a major pension scheme change, and nonprofessional investor and taxpayer judgments and perceptions. Reporting peerreviewed research contributions from North America and the U.K., this volume is essential reading for those looking to keep abreast of the most recent research, including empirical studies using a variety of research methods from different institutional settings and contexts.

Introduction / John Hasseldine -- Chapter 1. Do creditors influence corporate tax planning? Evidence from loan covenants / Kirsten Cook, Tao Ma, and Yijia (Eddie) Zhao -- Chapter 2. Tax-related accounting restatements and taxcontingency reporting / Paul N. Tanyi, J. Philipp Klaus, and Hughlene Burton -- Chapter 3. Annual report readability and share repurchases under a temporary tax holiday / Xin Zhao, Greg Filbeck, and Ashutosh Deshmukh -- Chapter 4. Tax planning activities and firm value: a dynamic panel analysis / Alan Kirkpatrick and Dragana Radicic -- Chapter 5. Taxation, pension schemes and stakeholder wealth / Emmanouil Platanakis and Charles Sutcliffe -- Chapter 6. The impact of countrybycountry reporting on nonprofessional investor / Stephanie Walton and Michael Killey -- Chapter 7. The effects of individual values on willingness to pay and fairness perceptions of use tax on internet purchases / Lixuan Zhang, Eric Smith, and Andrea Gouldman.

Concluding RemarksNotes; References; Appendix 1: Survey Instrument; The Influence of the Corporate Sector on the Effectiveness of Tax Compliance Instruments; Introduction; The Corporate Sector and the Use of Coercion and Persuasion in Tax Compliance; Sample and Research Design; Research Design; Basic Model; Advanced Model; Results and Discussion; Descriptive Statistics; Baseline Regression Results; Multilevel Regression Results; Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Determinants of Enforced Tax Compliance: Empirical Evidence from Malaysia; Introduction.

Volume 25 features eight articles. In the lead article, Savannah Guo, Sabrina Chi, and Kirsten Cook examine short selling as one external determinant of corporate tax avoidance and find that short interest is negatively associated with subsequent tax-avoidance levels and this effect is incremental to other factors identified by prior research.Next, Mark Bauman and Cathalene Rogers Bowler examine the effect of FIN48 on earnings management activity, by focusing on changes in the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. In the third article, Anthony Billings, Cheol Lee, and Jaegul Lee study whether the lowering of dividend taxes as part of the U.S. Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 resulted in an increase in dividend payouts at the expense of R&D spending.The fourth article by Brian Dowis and Ted Englebrecht examines reasonable compensation in closely-held corporations and the impact of gender, political affiliation, and family makeup on decisions made in the U.S. Tax Court. Then, a practice-related study by Sonja Pippin, Jeffrey Wong, and Richard Mason reports on a survey of Americans living abroad on the impact of tax rules explicitly designed for these individuals. They find that Americans living abroad experience the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act as negatively impacting their lives.The next three articles in this volume have an international focus. Zakir Akhand investigates the effects of the corporate sector on the effectiveness of selected tax compliance instruments in the context of large Bangladesh corporate taxpayers. K-Rine Chong and Murugesh Arunachalam examine the determinants of enforced tax compliance behaviour of Malaysian citizens with trust in the tax agency assumed to be a mediating variable. Lastly, Bitzenis and Vasileios investigate the effect of the economic downturn in Greece on the factors determining the level of tax morale through primary data from a European Union funded research project on the Greek shadow economy.

Volume 24 of Advances in Taxation contains seven articles, covering topics such as the impact of FASB Financial Interpretation No. 48 adoption through the lens of debt covenants; conflicting results in two prior studies on the relation between aggressive financial reporting and tax reporting; how a firm's external environment affects its tax avoidance activities; and bonus depreciation. Other articles use a behavioral research methodology to explore generational values and attitudes towards tax fairness and tax compliance; the expectation gap between tax clients' motivations to hire tax preparers versus tax preparers' perceptions of those clients' motivations; and evidence on the level and determinants of corporate income tax compliance costs.

Tax researchers have an important role to play in conducting and publishing rigorous quality research in the uncertain times facing the world's tax systems. There are many research questions to be addressed, and Advances in Taxation invites submissions on a broad range of tax topics.

Introduction: publishing quality tax research -- The effects of property taxes and public service benefits on housing values: a country-level analysis -- Measuring and characterizing the domestic effective tax rate of US corporations -- Tax and performance measurement: an inside story -- The impact of culture and economic structure on tax morale and tax evasion: a country-level analysis using SEM -- The determinants of tax morale and tax compliance: evidence from Jordan -- Measuring tax compliance attitudes: what surveys can tell us about tax compliance behaviour

Advances in taxation publishes relevant, high-quality manuscripts from around the world addressing problems arising from federal, state, local and international taxation. The series uses a wide variety of research methods, including archival, experimental, survey, qualitative and legal approaches to address the problems and issues associated with taxation. Volume 22 of Advances in taxation continues this approach to taxation, looking at issues concerning challenges in tax administration, taxpayer decisions, ethical issues in taxation, and college savings plans.