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A Study on the Tax Avoidance of Family Business Succession Companies－Focusing on Real Estate Ratio－

  • Yoon, Yu-Jin Department of Accounting and Taxation, Graduate School, Gachon University

Asian Tax Journal Vol. 22 No. 6 (2021), pp. 113-135

Abstract

This study investigates the level of tax avoidance of family business succession companies with a high ratio of real estate in their asset. This study also investigates the difference in the level of tax avoidance before and after succession of these firms. For firms with a high ratio of real estate, the net asset value is likely to increase significantly due to the revaluation of real estate following the application of a supplementary evaluation method for family business succession, leading to an increase in their tax burden. Thus, we expect that there will be a difference in the level of tax avoidance between firms with a high ratio of real estate and firms with a low ratio of real estate. In addition, we expect that there will be a difference in the level of tax avoidance before and after succession for firms with a high ratio of real estate because their incentives of tax avoidance decrease after family business succession. We test our hypotheses using a sample of 60 firm－year observations of external audit firms whose family business succession took place from 2010 to 2015 and whose follow－up management is in progress as of 2019. Our findings can be summarized as follows. First, among family business succession companies, firms with a high ratio of real estate have a higher level of tax avoidance than firms with a low ratio of real estate. Second, for firms with a high ratio of real estate, the level of tax avoidance after family business succession is lower than the level of tax avoidance before family business succession. In addition, this study analyzes the level of earnings management of family business succession companies with a high ratio of real estate. The results of the analysis show that there is no significant difference in the level of earnings management level between firms with a high ratio of real estate and firms with a low ratio of real estate. It is also found that there is no significant difference in the level of earnings management for firms with a high ratio of real estate before and after family business succession. This confirms that the level of tax avoidance of firms with a high ratio of real estate is affected by the increased tax burden due to the application of the supplementary valuation method, as predicted, rather than by the earnings management.

Keywords

  • Real Estate Ratio
  • Family Business
  • Business Succession
  • Tax Avoidance
  • Earnings Management

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