Index

Advances in Taxation

ISBN: 978-1-78714-524-5, eISBN: 978-1-78714-523-8

ISSN: 1058-7497

Publication date: 18 September 2017

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(2017), "Index", Advances in Taxation (Advances in Taxation, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 271-274. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1058-749720170000024009

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INDEX

Accelerated Recovery System
, 126

Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAERs)
, 44, 56, 73

Aggregate capital expenditures
, 133–135

Aggressive book reporting
, 38–46, 48

Aggressive tax reporting
, 38–43, 46, 48, 51–56

Alternative environmental uncertainty measure
, 105–107

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
, 202

ANCOVA
, 182, 185–186, 221–222

Annual tax-compliance costs
, 202

ASC 740
, 6

See also Financial Accounting Standard No. 109 (FAS 109)

Attitudes towards compliance
, 182–186

Attitude towards compliance
, 169–170

Baby Boomer generation
, 166, 170

Bloomberg BNA (Bloomberg BNA, 2014)
, 131

Bonus deprecation
, 130

Bonus depreciation
, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 150–151

Bonus depreciation enactment
, 133–135

Book effective tax rate
, 91

Book-tax conformity
, 42

Book-tax differences (BTD)
, 13, 52

Book-tax relation
, 40–42

Business investments
, 129

Capacity utilization
, 152

Capacity utilization variable
, 140

Capital expenditures
, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 135, 137–147, 149

CEAs. See Cumulative effect adjustments (CEAs)

Client Compliance Measurement Program
, 211

Client demographic variables
, 201

Client–preparer expectation gap
, 206

Client–preparer relationship
, 202

Clients, tax-preparer perceptions of
, 201

Client vs. tax-preparer gaps
, 200

Communication gap
, 204

Compliance costs
, 234–238, 241, 244, 245

Compliance questions
, 173–174

Corporate income tax compliance costs
, 234, 250–257

Corporate innovation
, 116–117

Corporate tax avoidance
, 84, 87, 93

Corporate taxes
, 233, 238, 239

Correlation analysis
, 219–220

Covariates
, 174–175

Covenant slack
, 4, 10, 13, 24, 25

Creditors value tax aggressiveness
, 3

Cumulative effect adjustments (CEAs)
, 2, 3, 9

Customer gap
, 204

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
, 92

Debt covenants
, 8–9

Debt covenant violation
, 4, 5, 17

Debt policy
, 116

Dependent variable (DFIN)
, 73

Despite tax preparation costs
, 206

Discretionary accruals (DFIN)
, 45, 51

DTAX
, 38, 47, 48

Earnings and taxable income
, 46

Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
, 126

Economic stimulus
, 127, 158

Effective tax rates (ETR)
, 42, 52

Enrolled Agents (EAs)
, 202

Environmental uncertainty
, 84, 86–90, 118

proxies of
, 90–91

Environmental uncertainty (EU)
, 83, 84–89, 90–91, 93, 99, 100, 101, 102

Equity questions
, 173

Estimated probability of fraud
, 48, 51, 72

ETR. See Effective tax rates (ETR)

European Commission
, 239

Federal income tax
, 126

Federal income tax filings
, 135–137

FIN 48. See Financial Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48)

Financial Accounting Foundation
, 5

Financial Accounting Standard No. 109 (FAS 109)
, 6

Financial Accounting Standards Board
, 2

Financial Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48)
, 6–8

cost of debt analysis
, 2, 24–30

data and sample selection
, 11–12

debt
, 9–10

descriptive statistics and univariate results
, 17–21

discretionary accruals
, 14

financial covenant violations
, 2

financial statement benefits
, 6

foreign operations
, 14

market response
, 11

multivariate analyses
, 3

multivariate results
, 21–24

negative cumulative equity
, 3

research design
, 12–17

stock market reaction
, 11

Financial statement fraud
, 38, 45, 48, 51, 55, 56, 70, 72

Firms’ capital expenditures
, 153

Firm’s financial sophistication
, 108

Firm specific and economic variables
, 137–147

Foreign income (FI)
, 93

Fraud

estimated probability of
, 48, 51, 72

financial statement
, 38, 45, 48, 51, 55, 56, 70, 72

GAAP. See Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Gaps model of service quality
, 203, 204, 205

Gaps Model of Service Quality
, 210

GDP. See Gross domestic product (GDP)

Gender perceptual differences, post Hoc assessment of
, 223–225

General Linear Model (GLM)
, 215–216

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
, 43, 73

Generational groups
, 172

Generational research
, 165–167, 186

Greece, tax compliance costs
, 234, 238, 239, 242

Greek corporate tax legislation
, 238

Greek economy
, 258

Greek tax system
, 239, 242, 249

Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 135

Income tax
, 6, 9

Income tax compliance costs
, 244–247

Industry-based quintile ranking
, 92

Innovation efficiency
, 116

Innovation-efficient firms
, 85

Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
, 126

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
, 2, 128, 138, 236

Internal Revenue Service commissioned Harris and Associates
, 169

Internal tax compliance costs
, 244

IRC. See Internal Revenue Code (IRC)

IRS. See Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

IRS Protect (PGAP)
, 215

IRS Protection Gap (DV)
, 214

Legal and accounting community
, 30

Legal Compliance (LGAP)
, 215

Legal Compliance Gap (DV)
, 214

Limited liability companies (EPE)
, 242

Listening gap
, 204, 210

Managerial ability
, 85, 89

Market ratio
, 13

Market response
, 28–30

Market-to-book ratio (MTB)
, 93

Measuring book and tax reporting aggressiveness
, 49, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 66, 67

Millennial generation
, 166–167

Millennials
, 164, 165, 172, 182

MTB. See Market-to-book ratio (MTB)

Multicollinearity
, 154

National Insurance Contributions (NIC)
, 235

Negative stock price reaction
, 42

Ordinary least quares (OLS) regressions
, 252

Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE)
, 235

Perceived fairness
, 175–182

Perceptions of tax-preparer advocacy
, 203, 219

Performance gap
, 204

Population estimates
, 247–249

Positive bonus depreciation effect
, 130

Property, plant and equipment (PPE), research
, 93

Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015
, 127, 128

Public limited liability companies
, 242

Qualtrics
, 170

Regression analysis
, 220–223

Regression Analysis Variables
, 215–216

Return on asset (ROA)
, 93

Revenue Act of 1962
, 129

Revenue growth
, 13

Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
, 57

Save Money Gap (DV)
, 214

Save Time Gap (DV)
, 214

Saving Money (MGAP)
, 214

Saving Time (TGAP)
, 215

SCM. See Standard Cost Model (SCM)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
, 138

Service design and standards gap
, 204

Standard Cost Model (SCM)
, 234, 239

Supplemental analysis
, 186–187

Tax accounting
, 6

Tax avoidance
, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91–92, 103–104

Tax client expectations
, 203, 207

Tax clients
, 200, 201, 209, 210, 213, 216, 228, 229

Tax compliance
, 164, 165

Tax-compliance costs
, 202, 234–238, 236, 241, 244, 245

Tax costs
, 42

Tax fairness
, 167–169

Tax incentive
, 130, 131

Taxpayer Gender
, 216

Taxpayer Motivation Scale (TMS)
, xiii–xiv, 200, 207, 209, 211

Tax-preparation expectation gap
, 210

Tax-preparer perceptions
, 201, 214

Tax preparers
, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210, 212, 213, 214, 217

Tax preparer sample characteristics
, 213

Tax-preparer services
, 200

Tax theory
, 116

Time valuation
, 243–244

Two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression analysis
, 85, 108

Uncertain tax benefits (UTBs)
, 2, 3, 85

United States Congress
, 127, 128

Variable definitions, FIN
, 48, 15

Wage costs
, 244

World War II
, 166