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Earnings,institutional investors,tax avoidance,and firm value: Evidence from Taiwan
Authors:Ling-Ling Chang  Fujen Daniel Hsiao  Yann-Ching Tsai
Institution:1. Department of Accounting, Ming-Chuan University, 250 Sec. 5, Zhong Shan N. Road, Taipei 111, Taiwan;2. Department of Accounting, Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, 1318 Kirby Drive, Duluth, MN 55812, United States;3. Department of Accounting, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Abstract:This study examines the valuation of earnings from China and Taiwan by foreign and domestic institutional investors across a sample of Taiwanese electronics firms. We further compare the valuation of firm earnings reported in tax havens and non-tax havens, and whether these firms have changed tax avoidance activities since 2004 when the Taiwanese government enacted stricter auditing of transfer pricing regulation.Our findings show that both operating income from the home country and investment income are positively associated with firm value. Operating income from China, however, is not significantly related to firm value when institutional ownership of the firm exceeds fifty percent. This result indicates that operating income is valued differently, depending on the location from which the income was generated. Non-operating income enhances firm value regardless of the revenue source. We also report that foreign institutional investors favor operating income from domestic and investment sources over earnings generated from non-domestic sources and other non-operating income. Furthermore, our results suggest that firms rearrange reported profits from subsidiaries located in tax havens to affiliates in other countries following the transfer pricing audit guide Taiwan implemented in 2004. Results also indicate firms may have been shifting profits to other low-tax-rate countries, or to countries which do not require firms to pay taxes, even if they are not doing business in that country.
Keywords:Foreign institutional investor  Domestic institutional investor  Firm value  Transfer pricing audit regulation  Tax avoidance  Tax havens
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