The Relation Between Financial and Tax Reporting Measures of Income

We examine the magnitude and sources of difference between income for tax and financial reporting purposes using publicly available data from 1988 to 1998. We find evidence that the book-tax income spread has generally increased over time, but that a relatively small set of variables are able to exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manzon, Gil B. Jr, Plesko, George A.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3520