题　目：Do Signatory Auditors with Tax Expertise Reduce Tax Aggressiveness?

嘉　宾：Jieying Zhang, Associate Professor, the University of Texas at Dallas

主持人：张  然  助理教授  上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时　间：2022年6月17日（周五）9:00-10:30

地　点：腾讯会议(校内师生如需获取会议号和密码，请于6月16日中午12点前发送电邮至finance@acem.sjtu.edu.cn) 

内容简介:

While prior research finds that auditors with tax expertise facilitate aggressive tax planning among their clients, this conclusion is based on auditors who provide non-audit tax services. We predict that auditors who provide attestation services have incentives to reduce misstatement risk by curbing tax aggressiveness. Using Chinese data, we identify tax-expert signatory auditors as those who are Certified Tax Agents. As predicted, we find that clients of signatory auditors with tax expertise engage in less tax aggressiveness than clients of signatory auditors without tax expertise. Consistent with a causal relation, we find that an exogenous decrease in tax rates, which reduces clients’ incentives to engage in tax aggressiveness, weakens the effect of tax-expertise on tax aggressiveness. We also find that tax-expert auditors attenuate the type of tax aggressiveness that increases misstatement risk, and that the channels through which tax-expert auditors constrain tax aggressiveness include audit adjustments that increase taxable income.

演讲人简介：

Professor Zhang conducts empirical research on debt contracting, accounting conservatism, and auditing. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UT Dallas in 2014, she was an assistance professor at the University of Southern California. Professor Zhang is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Accounting & Economics and serves on the editorial board of the Accounting Review and the Review of Accounting Studies.

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