Influential Article Review - Clashes Between Corporate Owners and Administrators on Taxation Matters

Abstract

This paper examines taxation. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: When analyzing the influence of taxation on agency conflicts between firm owners and managers, one can draw on theoretical principal–agent literature from various research fields. In recent years, this interdisciplinary research has grown significantly covering research with regards to optimal compensation, investment decisions, tax avoidance and transfer pricing while analyzing the effects of corporate income taxes, wage taxes, bonus taxes and shareholder taxes. Our paper provides a comprehensive review of analytical literature that studies the influence of taxation on agency conflicts between firm owners and managers. Above and beyond summarizing research findings, we discuss how taxes are commonly implemented in agency models, derive empirical predictions, and identify research gaps for future tax research. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.