FIN 48 and Multistate Income Tax Uncertainty

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Gupta ◽  
Lillian F. Mills ◽  
Erin Towery
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Fin 48 ◽  
Tax Uncertainty

One Size Does Not Fit All: How the Uniform Rules of FIN 48 Affect the Relevance of Income Tax Accounting

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 1195-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Robinson ◽  
Bridget Stomberg ◽  
Erin M. Towery
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Measurement Process ◽  
Fin 48 ◽  
Accounting Rules ◽  
Jel Classifications ◽  
Tax Accounting ◽  
Tax Expense ◽  
Tax Uncertainty

ABSTRACT Our study examines how the uniform rules of FIN 48, which governs accounting for income tax uncertainty, affect the relevance of income tax accounting. By requiring all firms to follow the same recognition and measurement process, the FASB intended FIN 48 to improve the relevance of income tax accounting. However, practitioners argue that reserves reported under FIN 48 lack relevance because they represent liabilities that will never be paid to tax authorities. Consistent with these concerns, we estimate that over a three-year period, only 24 cents of every dollar of reserves unwind via settlements. Moreover, contrary to the FASB's intention, we find no evidence that FIN 48 increased the ability of tax expense to predict future tax cash flows. Rather, we find that the predictive ability of tax expense for future tax cash flows decreases among firms for which FIN 48 is most restrictive. Finally, we find no evidence that investors identify firms for which reserves overstate future tax cash outflows and incorporate this into their valuations. Our results provide evidence that the uniform accounting rules of FIN 48 negatively affect the relevance of income tax accounting. JEL Classifications: H25; M41; M48.

scholarly journals Efeito tributário da adoção do ICPC 22 (IFRIC 23) nas empresas brasileiras emissoras de ADR

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 6-18
Author(s):  
Alexandre Hoeppers ◽  
Débora Borbon Moin ◽  
Alexandre Gonzales ◽  
Fernando de Almeida Santos
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
American Depositary Receipts ◽  
Fin 48 ◽  
Depositary Receipts

A aplicação da norma contábil ICPC 22 Incerteza sobre Tratamento de Tributos sobre o Lucro nas empresas brasileiras, norma equivalente ao IFRIC 23 Uncertainty over Income Tax Treatments, entrou em vigor para as demonstrações financeiras a findar-se a partir de 01 de janeiro de 2019. A ICPC 22 tem como comparação, a norma norte-americana FIN 48 - Uncertain Tax Positions (atualmente ASC 740-10), adotada no exercício de 2007 para as empresas brasileiras registradas na Bolsa de Valo-res de Nova Iorque - NYSE. Esse artigo teve por objetivo estudar os possíveis impactos tributários, decorrentes da aplicação da ICPC 22 para as empresas brasileiras emissoras dos American Depositary Receipts (ADR). Como metodologia, selecionou-se uma amostra de empresas brasileiras emissoras dos ADR, e realizou-se o teste t para amostras pareadas, considerando as hipóteses de ter havido e não ter havido efeito da adoção da ICPC 22. Analisou-se ainda as divulgações das empresas selecionadas para a amostra, antes e após a adoção da interpretação, considerando as informações trimestrais de 31 de março de 2019 e 31 de março de 2018. Como resultado do teste concluiu-se que as empresas selecionadas não tiveram qualquer impacto decorrente da adoção da ICPC 22, confirmando dessa forma, a hipótese inicial de que não haveria impacto. Apesar de algumas diferenças existentes entre a norma internacional ou ICPC 22 e a norma norte-americana FIN 48, esse artigo teve como contribuição um maior entendimento sobre os efeitos tributários da aplicação da ICPC 22/IFRIC 23 nas empresas brasileiras.

Tax Uncertainty and Voluntary Real-Time Tax Audits

2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Beck ◽  
Petro Lisowsky
Keyword(s):  
Sample Selection ◽  
Empirical Relation ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Internal Revenue ◽  
Fin 48 ◽  
Research Division ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
Tax Reserves ◽  
Tax Uncertainty

ABSTRACT This study examines the empirical relation between voluntary participation in the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Compliance Assurance Process (CAP) audit program, and tax uncertainty disclosed in financial statements pursuant to Financial Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48). Based on the findings of prior analytical and empirical research, we formulate and test hypotheses about the likelihood of voluntary CAP participation and the resulting effect on FIN 48 tax reserves. We find that firms with moderate-sized FIN 48 reserves are more likely to participate in CAP than firms with either small or large reserves, indicating an inverted U-shaped relation between CAP participation rates and firms' tax reserves. After controlling for non-random sample selection, we find that CAP firms significantly reduce their FIN 48 reserves by about 16.5 percent relative to non-CAP firms. However, this reduction is concentrated among firms with moderate-sized FIN 48 reserves. These cross-sectional differences are consistent with FIN 48 reserves reflecting both tax uncertainty and tax aggressiveness. JEL Classifications: M41; M42; M48; H25. Data Availability: FIN 48 data and confidential tax data on CAP participants are obtained from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Large Business & International (LB&I), Planning, Analysis, Inventory, and Research Division (PAIR). The CAP data are not publicly available; the FIN 48 data were compiled and validated by the IRS and made available to one of the authors. All other data are available from public sources identified in this treatise. Because tax data are confidential and protected by data nondisclosure agreements under the Internal Revenue Code, all statistics are presented in the aggregate; no statistics with three or fewer observations are disclosed. Any opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the IRS.

Regime of Fiscal Incorporation (RIF): A Tool That Gives Competitiveness to Start-Ups in Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1042-1046
Author(s):  
Tadeo Armando Barrón López ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Start Ups

The following text will show the different tax forms for a newly created company to become competitive, analyze the subsidies they have in a federal tax (Income Tax), compare the tax incorporation regime (RIF) with The old regime of small taxpayers (REPECO), analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the appropriate use of RIF for start-ups, and finally, the tax incorporation regime is compared with similar ones in Latin America, reflecting on tax contributions Which each government has to raise so that its governments are efficient and effective within a country.

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