CEO narcissism, corporate governance, financial distress, and company size on corporate tax avoidance

This research aims to confirm the reliability of agency theory as an approach to explaining the impact of CEO narcissism, corporate governance as represented by boards of size and female directors, financial distress, and company size on corporate tax avoidance. In this quantitative study, companies trading on the Indonesia stock exchange in 2017–2021 serve as the population and the research samples. This study uses panel data to integrate concepts, theories, and data on research variables in the investigation of ordinary least squares, random effects, and fixed effects with Stata software. Principals can use panel data-based research with testing to choose agents to run the business. Analyzing panel data is one way to test research that gives more accurate results. According to the first finding, CEO narcissism has a negative impact on corporate tax avoidance; the second finding, the board size had a positive impact on this strategy; the third finding, female directors had a positive impact on this strategy; the fourth finding is that financial distress does not affect this strategy; and on the fifth finding, the company size, the less likely its leaders are to engage in corporate tax avoidance strategies. The results of this study support agency theory in finding empirical evidence about the influence of CEO narcissism, corporate governance, financial distress, and company size on corporate tax avoidance with limitations on sampling in companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange with the LQ 45 category.