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Economic and financial reporting effects of inventory tax allowances

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  • BENZION BARLEV
  • DOV FRIED
  • JOSHUA LIVNAT

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. This study documents management's reactions to an inventory tax allowance that is based on inventory levels at the beginning of the year. Such an allowance was permitted by the tax authorities in Canada and Israel. The study develops a theoretical model which shows that a rational management should increase the firm's inventory levels on the balance sheet date beyond what the normal ordering policy would indicate. Moreover, tax authorities, in failing to anticipate this behavior, may, ceteris paribus, overcompensate firms for inflation. Empirical evidence shows that firms do, indeed, alter their ordering policies so that they will hold larger inventories on the balance sheet date. The study also shows that the tax authorities overcompensated firms in Israel, but did not overcompensate firms in Canada. Résumé. Cette étude documente les réactions du management à un dégrèvement fiscal afférent aux stocks basé sur les niveaux des stocks au début de l'année. Un tel dégrèvement était permis par les autorités fiscales au Canada et en Israël. L'étude développe un modèle théorique qui montre qu'un management rationnel devrait augmenter les niveaux des stocks de la firme à la date du bilan, au†delà de ce que la politique normale d'approvisionnement pourrait indiquer. D'ailleurs, les autorités fiscales qui n'anticipent pas ce comportement peuvent ceteris paribus, sur†idemniser les firmes pour l'inflation. L'évidence empirique montre en effet, que les firmes modifient leurs politiques d'approvisionnement de façon à avoir de plus gros stocks à la date du bilan. L'étude montre aussi que les autorités fiscales ont sur†indemnisé les firmes en Israël, mais ne les ont pas sur†indemnisées au Canada.

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  • Benzion Barlev & Dov Fried & Joshua Livnat, 1986. "Economic and financial reporting effects of inventory tax allowances," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 2(2), pages 288-310, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:2:y:1986:i:2:p:288-310
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.1986.tb00620.x
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