The Impact of Tax aggressiveness and Accounting Fraud on Financial Reporting Readability

Tax is an expense that imposed by the government on all for-profit units that generate revenue in some way. Tax strategy is generally defined as an obvious tax reduction. Managers strategically use corporate disclosures to mislead or influence investors' perceptions of corporate value. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Tax aggressiveness and Accounting Fraud on Financial Reporting Readability in firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. Based on this, the information required for the research was extracted from 87 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2010-2018. In this study, multivariate linear regression model has been used to test the hypotheses. Findings indicate that Tax aggressiveness using the effective tax rate index does not affect the readability of financial reporting. But Tax aggressiveness using the tax shelter index has a significant negative impact on the readability of financial reporting. Also, accounting fraud has a negative and significant effect on the readability of financial reporting.