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JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

The Effects of IFRS Adoption on Tax Expense
and its Information Content: Canadian Evidence


Author(s): Yan Jin

Citation: Yan Jin, (2018) "The Effects of IFRS Adoption on Tax Expense and its Information Content: Canadian Evidence",  Journal of Accounting and Finance, Vol. 18, ss. 2, pp. 26-39

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper examines whether tax expense and its information content have changed after Canadian firms adopted IFRS in 2011. Inspired by the concept of orthogonalization, this paper proposes a new measure for incremental information content to mitigate the multicollinearity among highly correlated accounting variables. The main analysis and robustness tests show that tax expense and its information content have not changed significantly during the transition to IFRS in Canada, while the average effective tax rate increased by 1.5 percent for the post-IFRS period.