Tax enforcement and corporate financial irregularities: Evidence from China

Chen Feng, Yongwei Ye and Caiquan Bai

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2023, vol. 88, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines whether and how tax enforcement affects corporate financial irregularities in China, utilizing the merger of the State Tax Bureau (STB) and Local Tax Bureaus (LTB) in 2018 as a quasi-natural experiment. Our findings show that stricter tax enforcement significantly reduces corporate financial irregularities, especially for firms with lower tax compliance, poorer internal governance, laxer external supervision, and lower economic status. Furthermore, the mechanism tests demonstrate that stricter tax enforcement forces firms to reduce tax avoidance and tax reporting irregularities. These findings are consistent with the effective supervision channel. Our findings suggest that stricter tax enforcement can improve the quality of corporate information disclosure, and providing useful insights for alleviating information asymmetry and improving information environment in the Chinese capital market.

Keywords: Tax enforcement; Corporate financial irregularities; Information disclosure; Effective supervision; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 G30 H26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102697

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