作者:王静静, 范宗辉
摘要/Abstract
本文分析了我国所得税管理体制改革对国有控股上市公司盈余确认行为的影响。2002年起我国地方企业的所得税由地方税调整为中央和地方共享税,提高了地方政府控股国有企业的实际所得税税负。那么,实际税率的改变会如何影响地方政府控股国有企业的盈余质量呢? 随着实际税率的上升,地方国有控股上市公司可以通过提高盈余确认的稳健性,降低账面盈余的方法来规避税收成本。本文比较了所得税管理体制改革前后,国有控股上市公司的盈余信息稳健性的变化。研究结果表明,中央控股上市公司所确认的应计项目在税改前后没有显著变化;而地方控股上市公司所确认的应计项目在税改后呈现出显著下降的趋势,即地方国有控股上市公司的盈余信息稳健性显著提高。本文的发现为研究税收成本与2002年以后上市公司盈余稳健性上升提供了崭新的解释。
The income tax sharing fiscal system increases the effective tax burden taken by the local government controlling listed enterprises. In order to evade more tax cost, the local controlled enterprises would improve the accounting earnings' conservatism to decrease accounting profit. This paper discusses the conservatism' change of the local and state share controlling enterprises and finds that: compared with the before of the tax reform, state share controlling enterprises' accruals don't seem a remarkable change; local share controlling enterprises' accruals decline markedly. These findings provide a new explain to accounting earnings' conservatism going upward of the listed enterprises.
