Are Family Firms More Tax Aggressive Than Non-Family Firms?
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...The identity of family members is closely linked to the firm, which often carries their name (Dyer & Whetten, 2006 ), and how others perceive the firm directly affects the image and reputation of family owners (Chen, Chen, Cheng, & Shevlin, 2010 )....
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...Chen et al. (2010) find that family firms are less tax aggressive than their non-family counterparts....
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...In an agency theory framework, recent research argues that tax avoidance activities can facilitate managerial opportunism, such as earnings manipulation and outright resource diversion (Chen et al., 2010; Desai and Dharmapala, 2006, 2009a)....
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...This measure is intended to pick up the permanent component of book-tax 18 Other papers that use factor analysis to measure tax aggressiveness include Chen et al. (2010) and Lennox et al. (2010)....
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...Firms with concentrated ownership, such as the family firms examined in Chen et al. (2010), may avoid more taxes because controlling owners benefit more from the savings....
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...We use the Chen et al. (2010) paper discussed above as an example....
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...42 Table 1 (Continued) Panel B Industry distribution of sample firm-years, by firm type Industry (per Fama and French 1997) Non-family firms frequency Family firms frequency % of family firms Food products 41 42 51% Recreational products 5 24 83% Printing and publishing 20 49 71% Consumer goods 48…...
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...Prior research (e.g., Anderson and Reeb 2003; Villalonga and Amit 2006) finds that having a family-member CEO can further increase family control....
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