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research_proposal_and_project._presentation.revised_1.pptxPRESENTATION
Research question and literature review
Effects of corporate income tax avoidance in the economy
What the question adds to the existing literature.
Several scholars have done research on how avoidance if corporate income tax has increased their pay as well as the corporations' profits.
They have not explained on how the avoidance of corporate tax has affected the economy.
The Corporate income tax is among the major sources of the federal revenue, through research in 2014 it raises about $320.7 billion in the fiscal year, 10.6 percent of all the countries’ revenue and 1.9 percent out of all the gross domestic product.
Economic framework.
When these corporate income taxes are avoided, the amount of money available to provide public goods and services reduces and consequently, the economy increased very much making it be out of balance.
Again, corporate income tax has contributed to budget shortfall. Corporations are complaining that there has been increased tax rate in the Federal income tax but what has led to this is the failure for many corporations to pay taxes on the amount of profits they make (Lebergott 2015).
Potential Data Sources
The target population will be ;
several CEOs in selected corporation
unions which deal with different corporations
the Fed which controls all the accounting and finances of the country
lastly is workers within those selected corporations
Importance of the Question
The importance of this research proposal will be to educate the relevant people on how this act of corporate income tax avoidance has towards the economy.
After which the expected measures will be taken to ensure that the economy is will control and people are not taxed very high (Onji and Tang 2015).
The gap between employees and the CEO pay affects the performance of the firm
Research shows that the size of the gap is determined the by the size of the firm of the industry (Carpenter and Sanders (2002).
But vertical pay disparity has negative effects on the firm, for example, the Korea firms
How the firm performance affects the CEO pay beyond what average employees make.
Between 1978 and 2014 after the inflation adjustments, CEO pay increased by about 1,000 percent while employees in the same period their pay increased by only 11 percent.
In this research, there are several factors which influence the firms pay apart from the individual CEO so the CEO is not to blame here and should just be paid despite the firms' performance (Pathak et.al 2014).
References
Carpenter, M. A., & Sanders, W. M. (2002). Top management team compensation: The missing link between CEO pay and firm performance? Strategic Management Journal, 23(4), 367-375.
Conyon, M. J., & Murphy, K. J. (2000). The prince and the pauper? CEO pay in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Economic Journal, 110(467), 640-671.
Gabaix, X., & Landier, A. (2006). Why has CEO pay increased so much? (No. w12365).
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lebergott, S. (2015). The American Economy: Income, Wealth, and Want. Princeton University Press.
Pathak, S., Hoskisson, R. E., & Johnson, R. A. (2014). Settling up in CEO compensation: The impact of divestiture intensity and contextual factors in refocusing firms. Strategic Management Journal, 35(8), 1124-1143.
Onji, K., & Tang, J. P. (2015). A nation without a corporate income tax: Evidence from the nineteenth century Japan. ANU Centre for Economic History Discussion Paper Series, (2015-09).
Stiglitz, J. E., & Rosengard, J. K. (2015). Economics of the Public Sector: Fourth International Student Edition. WW Norton & Company.
Warren, A. G. (2015). Enough is Enough: Business Tax Cuts Fail to Grow the Economy.
