The influence of tax services provided by auditors on tax avoidance: evidence from Brazil

This article investigated the temporal association between the tax services provided by auditors and the tax avoidance of Brazilian companies. A panel of non-financial companies from B3 was analyzed, covering the period from 2010 to 2017, through regressions for panel data. The documented results su...

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Autores: Santos, Luis Paulo Guimarães dos, Soares, Paula Araújo, Freitas, Sheizi Calheira de, Dias Filho, José Maria
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repositorio:Revista de contabilidade e organizações
Idioma:inglés
portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/175839
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.usp.br/rco/article/view/175839
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Tax avoidance
Auditoria
Serviços tributários
Taxa efetiva de tributos
Audit
Tax consultancy
Effective tax rate
Descrição
Resumo:This article investigated the temporal association between the tax services provided by auditors and the tax avoidance of Brazilian companies. A panel of non-financial companies from B3 was analyzed, covering the period from 2010 to 2017, through regressions for panel data. The documented results suggest that companies that use tax services from their auditors have a lower effective tax rate, incur a lower effective tax rate paid in cash and present a greater difference between the profit determined by accounting rules and the profit determined through tax rules when compared with companies that do not use such services.