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Investors value corporate tax responsibility – at least when the company is based somewhere with a lot of inequality, research shows

  • Written by Erica Neuman, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton

When corporations based in areas of above-average income inequality pay more taxes, it’s not just the public that appreciates it – investors do, too. That’s the key finding of our recent research published in the journal Accounting and the Public Interest.

Our finding challenges traditional economic theory holding that investors...

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