Private Equity and Taxes
Author: Olbert, Marcel, Severin, Peter on May 22, 2019
We study companies’ tax avoidance behavior after being acquired in a private equity transaction. We find that target companies’ effective tax rate decreases by 16.14% relative to the unconditional mean. This finding is in line with the hypothesis that private equity investors create shareholder value by extracting money from the…
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