The influence of the tax management of financial reporting

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21730371
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Accounting
Research Institution	Tohoku University (2010) Yamaguchi University (2009)
Principal Investigator	KOMETANI Kenji 東北大学, 大学院・経済学研究科, 准教授 (90432731)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	財務会計 / 税金 / 税務会計 / 会計学
Research Abstract	This study investigated the influence of the tax management on the financial reporting. Two main findings are obtained from this research. First, changes in the annual effective tax rate are persistent for future earnings, and stock prices fail to fully reflect the persistence. Second, although companies might achieve a reduction the annual effective tax rate by getting the tax benefits (e.g. R&D tax credits), I could not observe the explicit evidence that they would change the existing investment plan for the purpose of getting the tax benefits.