JAAF (Journal of Applied Accounting and Finance)
Vol 5, No 1 (2021): JAAF (Journal of Applied Accounting and Finance)

The Influence of Executive Compensation and Executive Shares Ownership towards Corporate Tax Avoidance

Melisa Rahardja Tandiono (Accounting Study Program, Faculty of Business President University, Cikarang, Indonesia)
Setyarini Santosa (Accounting Study Program, Faculty of Business President University, Cikarang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2021

Abstract

This study aims to examine the influence of executive compensation and executive shares ownership towards tax avoidance. By knowing the influence of executive compensation and executive shares ownership towards tax avoidance, it could be an input for better regulations relates to tax avoidance. This study used the annual report of property, real estate, and building construction company listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2014-2018. This study uses purposive sampling to determine the samples. There are 14 companies used in this research, in total there are 70 annual reports as samples used in this research. The control variables used in this research are company performance proxied using return on asset and company size proxied using total asset. The method used in this research is multiple linear regression. This study found that executive compensation has significant influence with negative coefficient on tax avoidance and executive shares ownership does not influence tax avoidance.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JAAF

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

JAAF Journal of Applied Accounting and Finance is a biannual double blind peer reviewed journal published in two period, March and September. This professional journal devoted to the development of accounting and financial disciplines both in theory and practice. The policy of the journal is to ...