ESG PERFORMANCE AND TAX AGGRESSIVENESS
A STUDY OF BRAZILIAN COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE CAPITAL MARKET
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ESG Performance, Corporate social responsibility, Tax aggressivenessAbstract
The general objective of the study was to analyze the relationship between the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and the tax aggressiveness of Brazilian companies in the capital market. The universe of this work was composed of all non-financial companies listed on B3, during the period from 2010 to 2020. The study sample involved 78 non-financial companies listed on B3, totaling 858 observations. In order to measure fiscal aggressiveness, the Book Tax Difference (BTD) was used and to measure ESG performance, the research used dimensions of the environmental, social and governance aspects together, as well as separately. Descriptive statistics, panel linear regression equations and quantile regression equations were measured. Broadly, several negative and significant relationships were found between the dimensions of ESG performance with the BTD proxy, revealing that companies with the best ESG performance are less fiscally aggressive. Thus, with these findings, it is possible to advance academic knowledge, as a proxy of unexplored fiscal aggressiveness in the national context was investigated in depth. Furthermore, in a practical way, the results signal to investors and society that companies that stand out in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices are less tax aggressive.
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