“言行一致”还是“投桃报李”?——企业社会责任信息披露与实际税负
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  • 英文篇名:Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility and Actual Tax Burden:Walking the Talk or Logging Rolling?
  • 作者:邹萍
  • 英文作者:ZOU Ping;College of Economics and Management,Huazhong Agricultural University;
  • 关键词:社会责任信息披露 ; 实际税负 ; 寻租 ; 产权性质 ; 政治关联
  • 英文关键词:corporate social responsibility disclosure;;actual tax burden;;rent-seeking;;property rights;;political connection
  • 中文刊名:JJGU
  • 英文刊名:Business Management Journal
  • 机构:华中农业大学经济管理学院;
  • 出版日期:2018-03-14
  • 出版单位:经济管理
  • 年:2018
  • 期:v.40
  • 基金:国家社会科学基金项目“企业社会责任投入动态调整与优化对策研究”(17CGL014);; 中央高校基本科研业务费专项基金项目“高管个人特征与资本结构动态调整研究”(2662015PY231)
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:JJGU201803011
  • 页数:19
  • CN:03
  • ISSN:11-1047/F
  • 分类号:161-179
摘要
目前关于企业社会责任(报告)的研究主要集中于利益相关者理论及其在中国企业中的运用,这些研究仅将政府作为一个获取税收收益的利益相关者纳入研究框架,忽视了政治经济体制对企业行为的影响。本文基于中国沪深A股上市公司的研究发现,企业社会责任信息披露及披露质量与企业实际税负均呈负相关,而且相比强制披露社会责任信息的企业而言,自愿披露社会责任信息的企业的社会责任信息披露质量与企业实际税负的负相关关系更强。这意味着企业明面上在积极主动地披露社会责任信息,暗地里却在从事避税行为。结合中国的转轨经济背景,本文采用寻租理论解释这种"言行不一"的行为:企业通过披露社会责任信息向地方政府寻租,地方政府则"投桃报李"地对企业在税收执法上放松,从而帮助企业降低实际税负。进一步结合中国的二元经济背景,研究发现:相比国有产权企业,私有产权企业寻租倾向更严重,通过社会责任信息披露显著降低了实际税负,即进行了更加激进的避税行为,而且政治关联的存在强化了这种关系。本文的研究提供了在转型经济国家中企业社会责任信息披露与避税行为并存的经验证据,对企业披露社会责任信息的动机与经济后果提供了新的解读。
        The studies on corporate social responsibility( CSR) mainly focus on the stakeholder theory and its application in Chinese enterprises. These studies only put the government as a stakeholder who get the tax revenue,but neglect the influence of system of political and economic on the enterprise behavior. Using China's listed companies from 2009-2015 as research sample,we find that the CSR disclosure exerts a negative impact on the level of corporate actual tax burden,and improving the quality of the CSR disclosure is also conducive to the decrease of corporate actual tax burden,especially if the enterprises disclose the CSR voluntarily. We further find that compared with the state-owned enterprises,the private-owned enterprises decrease the actual tax burden more aggressively by disclosing the CSR,and the political connection enhances the effect of CSR disclosure on corporate actual tax burden.The results show that companies are ostensibly disclosing corporate social responsibility information actively,while secretly avoiding tax. This contradictory behavior means that companies ' disclosure of corporate social responsibility information is not entirely motivated by altruistic motives,but may be otherwise. The rent-seeking theory provides a reasonable explanation to this behavior. The rent-seeking theory holds that government's regulation and intervention in the market makes various forms of rent,which leads to enterprises' rent seeking( Krueger,1974). One of the most prominent features of China's institutional environment is that the government has a strong tendency and power to intervene in the market. Chinese companies are born in this institutional environment and are deeply influenced by government behavior. The Chinese government attaches great importance to corporate social responsibility. Since 2006 the government has carried out a series of CSR disclosure policies and regulations,the CSR disclosure is no longer the result of autonomic behavior at the enterprise level,and is the reflection of the will of the government. Enterprises can meet the government's demand by actively disclosing corporate social responsibility information,and the government will give back to the enterprise by relaxing tax law enforcement to reduce the actual tax burden of enterprises. Therefore,the CSR disclosure has become one of the tools for rentseeking,which helps enterprises to obtain rent which is the reduction of actual tax burden. Moreover,under the influence of China's dual ownership system,compared with state-owned enterprises,the private enterprises have a more serious rentseeking tendency in order to survive and develop. Compared with the enterprises without political connection,the enterprises with political connection also have a more serious rent-seeking tendency in order to maintain political connection.This paper proposes several implications as follows. First,it analyzed the motivation of CSR disclosure from the perspective of rent-seeking,and fully considering the influence of China 's political and economic system on corporate behavior. Second,it provides empirical evidence of the coexistence of CSR disclosure and tax avoidance in transition economics,and reveals the internal relations and mechanism of action between them. Thirdly,it has enriched the relevant research on the consequences of non-financial information disclosure. Fourth,this study provides theoretical support for the discussion of the importance of regulatory and motivation,which is increasingly taken seriously by the government.China's economy is still in a stage of transition economy,because of government intervention and control,CSR disclosure has gradually become a subtle means of rent-seeking,which partly explains the phenomenon of coexistence of CSR disclosure and tax avoidance behavior. This phenomenon distorts the original intention of CSR disclosure,undermines the fair competition in the market,and damages the level of public welfare. Only speeding up the pace of market-oriented reform and strengthening the supervision over local government and related departments,can make the CSR disclosure become the product of market-driven.
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    (1)避税和偷逃税的主要区别在于合法性,但是,在实证研究中,由于合法性的模糊,这两个概念经常是不进行区分的(Slemrod和Yitzhaki,2002;范子英、田彬彬,2013),在具体的衡量上,主流会计文献通常从企业实际税负的角度来探讨企业避税程度(Chen等,2010[3];Hanlon和Heitzman,2010[4];陈冬等,2016[6];李增福等,2016)[7],本文亦遵从该做法。
    (1)中国审计署.2004年第4号:788户企业税收征管情况审计调查结果[EB/OL].中国审计署网站http://www.audit.gov.cn/n5/n25/c63506/content.html。
    (2)解读《白皮书》:2014年企业社会责任报告八大发现[EB/OL].新华网:http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2015-01/15/c_127389654_2.htm。
    (1)具体包括:是否经第三方机构审验;是否参照GRI《可持续发展报告指南》;是否披露股东权益保护;是否披露债权人权益保护;是否披露职工权益保护;是否披露供应商权益保护;是否披露客户及消费者权益保护;是否披露环境和可持续发展;是否披露公共关系和社会公益事业;是否披露社会责任制度建设和改善措施;是否披露安全生产内容;是否披露公司存在的不足。
    (1)考虑到社会责任信息披露对企业价值的影响可能存在滞后效应,本文对社会责任信息披露变量做了滞后一期处理。
    (2)具体计算方法为年末流通股市值、非流通股份占净资产的金额、长期负债以及短期负债之和除以企业总资产。
    (1)换用其他变量也能得到相似的结果,如表10和表11所示。

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