Does corporate donation lead to more tax aggressiveness?

Abstract

With regard to the supply of public goods, existing literature mainly focuses on the crowding out effect of public provision of public goods on private provision, while the adverse effect has been largely neglected. In this paper, building on the perspective of private provision's impact on public provision, we attempt to investigate the causal effect of corporate donation on firms' tax aggressiveness. We use the IV method to address potential endogeneity and find that corporate donation does not lead to more tax aggressiveness. We propose a supervision mechanism to explain the results. We empirically demonstrate the effect of supervision by including the local workforce of media business in the regression.