当前位置: X-MOL 学术Asian Journal of Business Ethics › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
An examination of labor unions and firm’s tax ethical behavior in the USA
Asian Journal of Business Ethics Pub Date : 2020-03-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s13520-020-00101-y
Hong Weng Lei , Chansog (Francis) Kim , Raymond M. K. Wong

Prior research finds that firms with strong business ethics are less likely to be tax aggressive. Labor union is one of the key stakeholders influencing firm’s tax aggressive behavior, whereas the bargaining process between labor union and firms exhibits ethical dilemma. Although industry-wide labor union coverage is commonly used in prior study to explore the monitoring role of labor unions in constraining management’s aggressive financial and tax decisions of their associated firms, we argue that firm-specific labor unions, which represent a different bargaining power of the employees, do play an important role in determining firms’ tax ethical decisions. Specifically, we examine whether and how the firm-specific labor union coverage impacts firms’ tax aggressiveness decisions over and above industry-wide labor union coverage. We hypothesize and find that firm-specific labor unions influence the associated firms to be more tax aggressive, which results in higher levels of residual cash flows. We also find that industry-wide labor unions influence the associated firms to be less tax aggressive, which is consistent with prior findings. We perform further analyses and find that the results are more pronounced for the firms with greater industry-wide labor unions representation. These results demonstrate that the inclusion of and interaction between the firm-specific and industry-wide labor unions matter in determining corporate’s tax aggressiveness decisions, which highlight firm’s ethical perplexity between tax savings and social commitments.

中文翻译:

在美国检查工会和公司的税收道德行为

先前的研究发现,具有良好商业道德的公司不太可能具有税收侵略性。工会是影响企业税收积极行为的主要利益相关者之一,而工会与企业之间的讨价还价过程则存在伦理困境。尽管在先前的研究中通常使用行业范围的工会覆盖率来探讨工会在约束管理层对关联企业的积极财务和税收决策方面的监控作用,但我们认为,特定于企业的工会代表了工会的不同议价能力。员工在决定公司的税收道德决策中起着重要作用。具体来说,我们研究了特定公司的工会覆盖率是否以及如何影响整个行业范围以外的公司的税收积极性决定。我们假设并发现,特定于公司的工会会影响关联公司,使其更具税收侵略性,从而导致更高的剩余现金流量水平。我们还发现,整个行业的工会对关联公司的影响较小,税收征管力度较小,这与先前的发现是一致的。我们进行了进一步的分析,发现结果对于具有更大的全行业工会代表的公司而言更为明显。这些结果表明,在确定公司的税收积极性决定时,公司特定工会和全行业工会的包含和相互作用很重要,这凸显了公司在节税与社会承诺之间的道德困惑。这导致更高的剩余现金流量水平。我们还发现,整个行业范围内的工会对关联公司的影响较小,其税收积极性较低,这与先前的发现是一致的。我们进行了进一步的分析,发现结果对于具有更大的全行业工会代表的公司而言更为明显。这些结果表明,在确定公司的税收积极性决定时,公司特定工会和全行业工会的包含和相互作用很重要,这凸显了公司在节税与社会承诺之间的道德困惑。这导致更高的剩余现金流量水平。我们还发现,整个行业范围内的工会对关联公司的影响较小,其税收积极性较低,这与先前的发现是一致的。我们进行了进一步的分析,发现结果对于具有更大的全行业工会代表的公司而言更为明显。这些结果表明,在确定公司的税收积极性决定时,公司特定工会和全行业工会的包含和相互作用很重要,这凸显了公司在节税与社会承诺之间的道德困惑。我们进行了进一步的分析,发现结果对于具有更大的全行业工会代表的公司而言更为明显。这些结果表明,在确定公司的税收积极性决定时,公司特定工会和全行业工会的包含和相互作用很重要,这凸显了公司在节税与社会承诺之间的道德困惑。我们进行了进一步的分析,发现结果对于具有更大的全行业工会代表的公司而言更为明显。这些结果表明,在确定公司的税收积极性决定时,公司特定工会和全行业工会的包含和相互作用很重要,这凸显了公司在节税与社会承诺之间的道德困惑。
更新日期:2020-03-09
down
wechat
bug