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纳税筹划文献综述及外文文献资料本文档包括改专题的：外文文献、文献综述一、外文文献文献信息标题：Effect of Tax Planning on Firms Market Performance: Evidence from Listed Firms in Ghana 作者：Kawor, Seyram; Kportorgbi, Holy Kwabla期刊：International Journal of Economics and Finance第6卷，第3期，页码：162-168，2014年Effect of Tax Planning on Firms Market Performance: Evidence from Listed Firms in GhanaKawor, Seyram; Kportorgbi, Holy KwablaAbstractThe study sought to ascertain the level of tax planning of firms and to explore the relationship between tax planning and firms' market performance. The study used 22 non-financial companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange over a twelve year period from 2000. The longitudinal correlative designed was used. The results indicate that that firms' tendency to engage in intensive tax planning activities reduces when tax authorities maintain low corporate income tax rates. Secondly, tax planning has a neutral influence on firms' performance. This finding challenges the general perception that every cedi of tax savings from tax planning reflect in the pocket of investors. It is concluded that investors must institute systems to ensure tax planning benefits reflect significantly in their pockets.Keywords: Ghana stock exchange, tax planning, market performance, longitudinal correlative design, investors1. IntroductionOver the years and throughout the world, the history of taxation brings out one fact; that taxes are coercive in nature and therefore economic units which are assigned the tax liability never wholly intend to bear the actual tax burden (Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA), 2007). Economic units, more specifically, corporate bodies are always adopting ways to minimise, postpone, or avoid entirely, the payment of tax. The attempts by the economic units to reduce, postpone or avoid tax payment can be legal or illegal. The legal means is called tax planning while the illegal means is called tax evasion. The dire consequence of tax evasion makes it an unattractive option for listed companies (Murphy, 2004).The practice of tax planning dates back to 1947 when learned judge Hand, in the case Commissioner v Newman, held that there is nothing sinister in arranging ones affairs so as to keep taxes as low as possible. Hoffman's (1961) tax planning theory supports this argument. According to Hoffman, it is a necessity for firms to understand the prevailing tax laws and apply the laws in a manner that ensures the firms minimise their tax exposure. Hoffman posits that it makes no economic sense to pay more tax than what the law demands. Scholes and Wolfson's (1992) tax planning framework also underscores the need for corporate bodies to engage in tax planning. According to Scholes and Wolfson, a successful company is the one that is properly attuned to its tax environment.International governmental organizations, such as CA TA (2009), suggest that corporate bodies in Ghana, especially the large entities, engage in complex tax planning activities. Research by civil society groups such as Christian Aid (2008), Action Aid (2011), and Dan Watch (2011), confirm this assertions made bythe Domestic Revenue Division. The missing element in the findings is thequantitative expression of the tax planning activities of the firms.The traditional thinking is that firms that derive maximum benefit from tax planning perform better than those that do not plan their taxes (Murphy, 2007). From the empirical perspective, tax planning is positively associated with firms' performance. For instance, Desai and Hines (2002); Chen, Chen, Chen and Shelvin (2010) reported positive association between tax planning savings and firm performance. The argument is that tax represents cost of doing business, and any action that has the potential of minimising tax cost reflects in higher firm performance. This argument presupposes that tax planning cost and risk does not exceed the savings from the planning.Few studies in the UK dispel the traditional relationship between tax planning and firm performance. While admitting that tax planning has a positive association with accounting performance, Desai and Dharmaphala (2007) reported that tax planning has a neutral association with market performance. Indeed Abdul-Wahab (2010) found a negative association between tax planning and firm performance. Kportorgbi (2013) suggested that corporate governance strength plays a mediating factor in the tax planning-firm performance relationship.A study of the effect of tax planning savings on firms' market performance is crucial for all stakeholders in the emerging security markets such as the Ghana stock Exchange. In fact each possible relationship has a unique implication for the players. For instance, a positive association implies that tax planning produces a win-win situation for both management andshareholders (investors). A negative association connotes that tax planning benefits may not eventually trickle to the pocket of the shareholder. Indeed, a negative association may be an indicative of the existence of agency problem, where management is inclined to pursue tax planning to enhance their own lot rather than advancing the interest of the investor. Where a neutral association is established, it will invoke a follow up study on the possible factors that could influence the relationship either positively or negatively. Secondly, the study is necessary to inform tax planning agents and investors on the dynamics of tax planning1.1 Objective of the StudyThe primary objective of this study is to explore the relationship between tax planning savings of firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange and firm market performance. The study also seeks to examine the simultaneous influence of other firm specific variables on the tax planning-market performance relationship.1.2 Tax Planning Intensity of Firms in GhanaCommentators on tax behaviour of firms in Ghana paint a picture that suggests that large firms engage in tax planning activities. For instance CATA (2009) posits that Ghana Revenue Authority lost seventy-four million pounds between 2005 and 2007 to the European Union (EU) in tax revenue as a result of tax avoidance by several multinational companies. Murphy (2004) also reported that firms have complex gamut of arsenals to reduce their tax burden. The reports indicate that the tax avoiding mechanism of firms are largely allowed by the tax laws. There are also indications that the firms take advantage of the loopholes in the tax laws to derive unintended tax benefits. Theavenues for tax planning usually revolve around locational reliefs, industry-specific concessions and capital allowance provitions. Others are time variables and entity variables.Most of the reports are not precise in their estimation of the benefits that firms achieve through tax planning. The lack of precision in measuring tax planning intensity is largely attributed to the insufficient reporting of issues of taxation by firms. Aside the mandatory disclosures to tax authorities, firms are reluctant in disclosing much on tax behaviours. This is due to the perceived thin line that exist between tax planning and tax evasion. Listed companies, however, provide provide adequate information necessary to estimate the tax savings of the firms. This is made possible by virtue of the financial reporting guidelines provided by the security exchange commision.2. Review of Related LiteratureThis section is subdivided into theoretical review and empirical review. The theoritical review encapsultes the Hoffman's (1961) tax planning theory. Three main empirical studies are reviewed. They are Desai and Hines (2002), Desai and Dharmaphala (2009) and Abdul-Wahab (2010).2.1 Hoffman's Tax Planning TheoryAccording to Hoffman (1961) tax planning seeks to divert cash, which would ordinarily flow to tax authorities, to the corporate entities. Tax planning activities are desirable to the extent that they reduce taxable income to the barest minimum, without sacrificing accounting income. The theory is premised on the fact that firms tax liability is based on taxable income rather than accounting income. The idea is thus to intensify activities that reduce taxable income but has no indirect relationship on accounting profit. The theory thus recognised a positiveassociation between firm tax planning activity and firm performance.Hoffman (1961) also recognised the role of tax cost in the tax planning activities. The theory thus provided that the positive association between tax planning and corporate performance is on a basic assumption that tax benefits from the tax planning exceed tax cost. The scope of the Hoffman's tax planning theory does not address the dynamics of tax planning and market performance. As capital markets develop and the separation of ownership and control of corporate bodies become well-spread, the need for a comprehensive tax planning theory is imperative. This need is rather addressed through the empirical perspective than through theoretical perspective (Inger, 2012).2.2 Empirical Review and Development of HypothesisDesai and Hines (2002) provide evidence on firm performance and tax planning behaviour of firms. Again, the study investigates the relationship between tightening of tax systems and market value of firms. The study was based on 850 listed US firms. The study sample was purposively selected to reflect the characteristics desired by the researchers. The study was cross sectional and the data relates to year 2000. Correlative-description design was adopted. Simple regression and t-tests were used to establish the relationships. Desai and Hines established that intensive tax planning is associated with higher firm performance. On the other hand, the study reported that tightening of the tax system is positively associated with higher market performance of firms. The findings of Desai and Hines (2002) are similar to that reported by Chen, Chen and Chen (2010). Desai and Dharmapala (2007) provided a comprehensive study that incorporates tax planning, corporate governance andfirm performance. The study used 4,492 observations on 862 firms over the period 1993 to 2001. This panel data was drawn from the Compustat and Execucomp databases, merged with data on institutional ownership of firms from the CDA/Spectrum database. Firms' performance is measured using Tobin's q and governance quality is proxied by the level of institutional ownership. Tax planning is measured by inferring the difference between the income reported to capital markets and tax authorities (the book-tax-gap). Two analysis models were adopted-the OLS model and the IV estimation model. The OLS results shows that the average effect of tax planning on corporate performance is not significantly different from zero. In other words, there is no relationship between tax planning and firm performance. The study howeverreports a positive association between tax planning savings and performance for well-governed firms. Desai and Dharmapala (2007) thus concluded that corporate governance mediates the tax planning-firm performance relationship. The IV estimate shows a higher effect of corporate governance on firm performance.Abdul-Wahab (2010) provides a result that differs from the findings of Desai and Hines (2002), Desai and Dhamarpala (2009), and Chen, Chen, Chen and Shelvin. Abdul-Wahab's (2010) study sought to establish a relationship between tax planning savings of firms and their value. The study simultaneously investigates the moderating influence of corporate governance. Abdul-Wahab's study employed 240 firms listed on the London stock exchange from 2005 to 2007. Tax planning was proxied by the difference between the effective tax rate of the entities and the applicable statutory tax rates. Self-constructed governance indexwas constructed using corporate governance mechanisms. Firms' value was represented by the Tobin's Q. The data was analysed using panel regression analysis model. As a check, the OLS model was also used.The results indicate a negative relationship between firm value and tax planning activities. Abdul-Wahab (2010) explains the relationship with reference to tax planning cost and risk. The study suggested that tax planning cost and risks associated with tax planning have the potential of derailing the benefits that should have accrued to shareholders. The researcher maintains that as tax planning activities increase, the tax costs and risks outweighs the benefits.Due to the diversity of the relationships found between tax planning and firms' market performance, it is right to develop a null hypothesis as:H1: There is an association between tax planning and firms' market performance.It is unreasonable to suggest that tax planning is the only determinants of firm performance. Baring the existence of multicollinearity between (among) the explanatory variables, sales growth, financial leverage, firm size and age of the firms will be introduced into the regression models. Several studies, including Desai and Hines (2002), Desai and Dharmaphala (2007), Abdul-Wahab (2010) reported positive association between firm performance and sales growth, firm size and financial leverage. It is thus clear to develop the null hypothesis that:H2: Firm performance and sales growth and firm size are positively associated.Firms' age, according to Desai and Dharmapala (2007) and Abdul-Wahab (2010) has a negative association with marketperformance of firms. This gives rise to the third null hypothesis that:H3: Firms age and financial leverage are negatively associated with firms' market performance. 3. Methodology Longitudinal correlative design is adopted for the study. Longitudinal design is essential if the same research entities sampled in a cross section are then re-sampled at different times (Creswell, 2009; De Vaus, 2001). According to the authors, the design helps overcome limitations associated with the "snap shot" approach of cross sectional designs.The study population comprises all non-financial firms listed on the Ghana stock exchange. As of June 2013, twenty-three (23) out of thirty-five (35) firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange were non-financial companies. Financial companies are excluded from the population. Previous researchers posit that the financial sector is a highly regulated sector and as such regulations blur the relationship that exist among the variables to be studied (O'Hamon & Taylor, 2007; Desai & Dharmapala, 2009; Abdul-Wahab, 2010).The study uses a panel data for twelve-year period, from 2000 to 2011. Data for the study is collected from the database of the Ghana Stock Exchange. Panel regression model is adopted fordata analysis and the Ordinary least square (OLS) been the method of regression.The regression model is summarized as:(1)α = (alpha) shows the constant affecting net profit margin on corporate tax.Tobin's q (market performance) = (market capitalization ofentity) ÷ (book va lue of shareholders fund).Tax savings = Statutory tax rate -Effective tax rate.Statutory tax rate = flat rate as mandated by the Ghana Revenue Authority.Effective tax rate = Corporate income tax expense/profit before tax.Sgrowth (sales growth) = (Previous Sales revenue -Current sales revenue) ÷Previous sales revenue.Fsize (firm size) = Natural log of firm's total assets.fLev (Financial leverage ) = Long term debt/shareholders fund.Age (Age of firms) = log(the difference between the year of establishment and years of observation).4. Results and DiscussionFigure 1 and Table 1 presents the descriptive statistics for two key variables, namely tax planning of firms and market performance over the twelve year period.Like the statutory rate, tax savings of firms show a decreasing trend. As tax authorities take steps to reduce the tax burden on firms, the leakages in tax revenue due to firms tax planning activities reduce. From figure 1, the statutory tax rate reduced from about 32% to 25%. Tax savings of firms reduced also from 15% to 8% by 2011. That is to say each percentage point decrease in the statutory rate leads to a corresponding decrease in firms' tax planning savings.The policy implication of this finding is two-fold. Firstly, the notion of increasing tax rate in order to rake in more tax revenue may not hold. As tax rates increased, the motivation of firms to deny the state of revenue through intensified tax planning machinery is enhanced. Secondly, as the tax rate is decreased, thenet benefit of planning tax is derailed. The way forward for tax revenue optimisation is to maintain lower tax rates and drag more firms into the tax net.Table 1 provides the market performance of the firms over the twelve year period.The farther the Tobin's Q is from unity, the better the company performance. From Table 1, all the company groups recorded an average score higher than 1.00. The overall average score is 1.78 (the median represents the average as skewness is negative). The high average market performance by the firms is driven by only the mining sector and the manufacturing companies. All the remaining classes of companies recorded lower than the average score.This finding confirms the observation of business persons in Ghana that business climate in Ghana gives unmatched advantage to the mining sector. The service sector records the lowest market performance. This raises a major concern as the sector is the major contributor to gross domestic product (GDP) in Ghana. Another sector to watch out for is the oil and gas. This sector has the most recent history. It was expected that the high hopes of investors in the sector after the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in Ghana would have positive influence on the performance. It is expected that the sector will be one of the major drivers of firms' market performance in the future.Table 2 provides correlation results on the variables. This result is essential for at least two reasons. Firstly, it shows basic association between the dependent variable (market performance) and theindependent variable. Secondly, it shows if the "so-called" independent variables are indeed independent. In other words, ittests the multicollinearity status of the independent variables. From Table 2, the correlation co-efficient between tax savings and Tobin's Q is 0.112. This is however significant at 0.097. This significant level is compared with the default alpha of 0.05. As rule of thumb, we reject the null hypothesis if the actual significant level is higher than the expected alpha and do not reject if the actual significant is less than the expected alpha. In this instance p-value of 0.097 is greater than the expected alpha of 0.05. The null hypothesis that:H1: There is an association between tax planning and firms' market performance is rejected.The correlation results do not suggest causation but gives an indication of association between the variables. The "no relationship" finding between tax planning and firms' market performance supports the reports of Desai and Dharmapala (2007) but differ from the findings of Desai and Hines (2002) and Abdul-Wahab (2010). The findings suggest that although savings from tax planning reflect in higher profit after tax, it does not necessarily reflect in the pocket of shareholders. This finding ignites studies aimed at uncovering factors that mediate the tax planning-firm performance relationship. Indeed, it might be the reasons behind the works of Desai and Dharmapala (2007), Desai and Dharmapala (2009) and Abdul Wahab (2010).Another finding in table 3 is the relationship between market performance (proxied by tobin's Q) and the firm specific variables. Sales growth and firm size shows positive and significant association with firms' market performance. On the other hand financial leverage and age of the firms shows a negative association with firm performance. The findingsWe do not reject the null hypotheses (H2 and H3) stated asH2: Firm performance and sales growth and firm size are positively associatedH3: Firms age and financial leverage are negatively associated with firms' market performance. Further Table 3 gives an indication that multicollinearity among the independent variables does not exist. The rule of thumb is that if the correlation coefficients between any two of the variables is above 0.50 (either positive or negative), those two variables are multi-correlated and should not be simultaneously included in the regression model. From Table 3, this condition does not exist. The variables can be regressed against the dependent variables.Table 3 shows the regression of Tobin's Q (proxy of firms' market performance) and all the independent variables.The adjusted R2 connotes that the five independent variables explain 55.3% of the variations in the dependent variable. The model is significant at 0.0001. This is a strong indicator that the variables used in the model have sufficiently explained the firms' market performance.The regression results found a relationship that is largely consistent with the correlation results shown in table 3. The results affirm that tax planning plays an insignificant role in the determination of firms' market performance. Again this supports the agency theory's argument that it not all actions of management that help achieve the wealth maximisation objective of management. From the results sales growth and the financial leverage are the two most influential variables. Firms should maintain low financial leverage ratio and pursue sales growth strategies in order to boost their market performance.5. ConclusionsThe study sought to ascertain the level of tax planning offirms and to explore the relationship between tax planning and firms' market performance. The study used 22 non-financial companies over a twelve year period from 2000. The longitudinal correlative designed was used. Thefollowing conclusions are reached.Firstly firms' tax savings decrease as tax authorities reduce the statutory corporate income tax rates. This indicates that leakages in tax revenue as a result of intensive tax planning of firms reduce when tax authorities maintain low corporate income tax rates.Secondly, tax planning has a neutral influence on firms' performance. This finding challenges the general perception that every cedi of tax savings from tax planning reflect in the pocket of investors. Agency problem is much present in the issue of tax planning. The efforts of management to reduce tax burden of firms benefit other stakeholders rather than shareholders. There may be other factors that could ensure that substantial benefits of tax planning accrue to shareholders. Some researchers arguably, root for good corporate governance. This falls outside the scope of this study.Finally, sales growth, firm size, age of firms, financial leverage and tax planning simultaneously play a major role in determining firms' market performance. These variables explain 55.3% of the variations in firms' market performance. Sales growth and financial leverage are the two most influential variables that determine firm market performance.References二、文献综述企业纳税筹划文献综述摘要：20 世纪以来并购已经成为企业快速扩张和整合的重要手段之一。

本科毕业设计（论文）中英文对照翻译(此文档为word格式,下载后您可任意修改编辑!)作者：Bernard G期刊：International Journal of Information Business and Management 第5卷，第3期，pp：41-51.原文The research of financial Risk Management in SMESBernard GINTRUDUCTIONSmall and medium sized enterprises (SME) differ from large corporations among other aspects first of all in their size. Theirimportance in the economy however is large . SME sector of India is considered as the backbone of economy contributing to 45% of the industrial output, 40% of India’s exports, employing 60 million people, create 1.3 million jobs every year and produce more than 8000 quality products for the Indian and international markets. With approximately 30 million SMEs in India, 12 million people expected to join the workforce in next 3 years and the sector growing at a rate of 8% per year, Government of India is taking different measures so as to increase their competitiveness in the international market. There are several factors that have contributed towards the growth of Indian SMEs. Few of these include; funding of SMEs by local and foreign investors, the new technology that is used in the market is assisting SMEs add considerable value to their business, various trade directories and trade portals help facilitate trade between buyer and supplier and thus reducing the barrier to trade With this huge potential, backed up by strong government support; Indian SMEs continue to post their growth stories. Despite of this strong growth, there is huge potential amongst Indian SMEs that still remains untapped. Once this untapped potential becomes the source for growth of these units, there would be no stopping to India posting a GDP higher than that of US and China and becoming the world’s economic powerhouse. RESEARCH QUESTIONRisk and economic activity are inseparable. Every business decisionand entrepreneurial act is connected with risk. This applies also to business of small and medium sized enterprises as they are also facing several and often the same risks as bigger companies. In a real business environment with market imperfections they need to manage those risks in order to secure their business continuity and add additional value by avoiding or reducing transaction costs and cost of financial distress or bankruptcy. However, risk management is a challenge for most SME. In contrast to larger companies they often lack the necessary resources, with regard to manpower, databases and specialty of knowledge to perform a standardized and structured risk management. The result is that many smaller companies do not perform sufficient analysis to identify their risk. This aspect is exacerbated due to a lack in literature about methods for risk management in SME, as stated by Henschel: The two challenging aspects with regard to risk management in SME are therefore: 1. SME differ from large corporations in many characteristics 2. The existing research lacks a focus on risk management in SME The following research question will be central to this work: 1.how can SME manage their internal financial risk? 2.Which aspects, based on their characteristics, have to be taken into account for this? 3.Which mean fulfils the requirements and can be applied to SME? LITERA TURE REVIEWIn contrast to larger corporations, in SME one of the owners is oftenpart of the management team. His intuition and experience are important for managing the company. Therefore, in small companies, the (owner-) manager is often responsible for many different tasks and important decisions. Most SME do not have the necessary resources to employ specialists on every position in the company. They focus on their core business and have generalists for the administrative functions. Behr and Guttler find that SME on average have equity ratios lower than 20%. The different characteristics of management, position on procurement and capital markets and the legal framework need to be taken into account when applying management instruments like risk management. Therefore the risk management techniques of larger corporations cannot easily be applied to SME. In practice it can therefore be observed that although SME are not facing less risks and uncertainties than large companies, their risk management differs from the practices in larger companies. The latter have the resources to employ a risk manager and a professional, structured and standardized risk management system. In contrast to that, risk management in SME differs in the degree of implementation and the techniques applied. Jonen & Simgen-Weber With regard to firm size and the use of risk management. Beyer, Hachmeister & Lampenius observe in a study from 2010 that increasing firm size among SME enhances the use of risk management. This observation matches with the opinion of nearly 10% of SME, which are of the opinion, that risk management is onlyreasonable in larger corporations. Beyer, Hachmeister & Lampenius find that most of the surveyed SME identify risks with help of statistics, checklists, creativity and scenario analyses. reveals similar findings and state that most companies rely on key figure systems for identifying and evaluating the urgency of business risks. That small firms face higher costs of hedging than larger corporations. This fact is reducing the benefits from hedging and therefore he advises to evaluate the usage of hedging for each firm individually. The lacking expertise to decide about hedges in SME is also identified by Eckbo, According to his findings, smaller companies often lack the understanding and management capacities needed to use those instruments. METHODOLOGY USE OF FINANCIAL ANAL YSIS IN SME RISK MANAGEMENT How financial analysis can be used in SME risk management? Development of financial risk overview for SME The following sections show the development of the financial risk overview. After presenting the framework, the different ratios will be discussed to finally present a selection of suitable ratios and choose appropriate comparison data. Framework for financial risk overviewThe idea is to use a set of ratios in an overview as the basis for the financial risk management.This provides even more information than the analysis of historicaldata and allows reacting fast on critical developments and managing the identified risks. However not only the internal data can be used for the risk management. In addition to that also the information available in the papers can be used. Some of them state average values for the defaulted or bankrupt companies one year prior bankruptcy -and few papers also for a longer time horizon. Those values can be used as a comparison value to evaluate the risk situation of the company. For this an appropriate set of ratios has to be chosen. The ratios, which will be included in the overview and analysis sheet, should fulfill two main requirements. First of all they should match the main financial risks of the company in order to deliver significant information and not miss an important risk factor. Secondly the ratios need to be relevant in two different ways. On the one hand they should be applicable independently of other ratios. This means that they also deliver useful information when not used in a regression, as it is applied in many of the papers. On the other hand to be appropriate to use them, the ratios need to show a different development for healthy companies than for those under financial distress. The difference between the values of the two groups should be large enough to see into which the observed company belongs. Evaluation of ratios for financial risk overview When choosing ratios from the different categories, it needs to be evaluated which ones are the most appropriate ones. For this some comparison values are needed inorder to see whether the ratios show different values and developments for the two groups of companies. The most convenient source for the comparison values are the research papers as their values are based on large samples of annual reports and by providing average values outweigh outliers in the data. Altman shows a table with the values for 8 different ratios for the five years prior bankruptcy of which he uses 5, while Porporato & Sandin use 13 ratios in their model and Ohlson bases his evaluation on 9 figures and ratios [10]. Khong, Ong & Y ap and Cerovac & Ivicic also show the difference in ratios between the two groups, however only directly before bankruptcy and not as a development over time [9]. Therefore this information is not as valuable as the others ([4][15]).In summary, the main internal financial risks in a SME should be covered by financial structure, liquidity and profitability ratios, which are the main categories of ratios applied in the research papers.Financial structureA ratio used in many of the papers is the total debt to total assets ratio, analyzing the financial structure of the company. Next to the papers of Altman, Ohlson and Porporato & Sandin also Khong, Ong & Y ap and Cerovac & Ivicic show comparison values for this ratio. Those demonstrate a huge difference in size between the bankrupt andnon-bankrupt groups.Therefore the information of total debt/total assets is more reliable and should rather be used for the overview. The other ratios analyzing the financial structure are only used in one of the papers and except for one the reference data only covers the last year before bankruptcy. Therefore a time trend cannot be detected and their relevance cannot be approved.译文中小企业财务风险管理研究博纳德引言除了其他方面，中小型企业(SME)与大型企业的不同之处首先在于他们的规模不同，但是，他们在国民经济中同样具有重要的作用。

Planning forever tax savingsLearn how to keep your tax bill at the legal minimum…and keep it there!By MarkNow is the best time to think about reducing the ornamental and miscellaneous metal operation’s tax bill even lower than the point the economy may have driven it ,of course,aim to keep that tax bill at its legal minimum for many year to come.While many of us rely on the advice and help provided by tax professionals or utilize software programs to ensure a low tax bill,the real goal should be a low tax bill for not just this tax year but best guarantee of consistently low tax bill,this year,next year,and so-on down the road is,of course,tax planning.Tax planning is easy:the more tax deductions taken,the lower the fabricating operations taxable income will be----at least for this tax course,ignoring potential tax deductions this year might mean significant savings in later years when profits----and tax bills---are way,in order for deductions to count,the time to make the moves necessary for those low tax bills is before the end of the tax year.Tax Planning BasicsWhen thinking about any type of tax planning,every metal fabricator should keep in mind that although the IRS may occasionally disagree,the courts strongly back every taxpayer’s right to choose the course of action that will result in the lowest legal tax ,as the end of the tax year quickly approaches,every fabricator faces several different options as to how to complete certain taxable transactions.Out tax system has graduated rates that increase along with the income of the metal fabrication business at various tax ,one strategy for saving taxes means reducing the tax bracket of the fabricating the most from the temporary 15-percent tax rate for dividends,means finding another way to reduce corporate level income----and taxesObviously,neither an ornamental metal fabricating business nor any business owner can literally reduce their federal income tax can however,take actions that will have a similar example:Choosing the optimal from of organization for the business(suchas sole proprietorship,partnership,corporation or SCorporation).Although not a year-end tax planning strategy,thisoption deserves attention in the overall tax planning processespecially in light of the current,and temporary,15 percent taxrate on dividends paid by incorporated metalworking businesses.Structuring transactions so that payments received are capitalcapital gains earned by non-corporate taxpayers are subject tolower tax rates than other income.Shifting income from a high-tax bracket individual(such as you,thebusiness owner),to a lower-bracket individual(such as yourchild).One fairly,simple way to accomplish this is by hiring your possibility is to make one or more children partners in thebusiness,so that net profits are shared among a larger group.While the tax laws limit the usefulness of this srtategy for shifting “unearned” income to children under the age of 14,some opportunities to lower tax rates still do ,however,the time to think about those strategies is during the course of the tax year.Consistently ConsistentAlthough the goal is usually to reduce taxes this year,to be really effective the tax bracket should be consistent income is up this year but expected to be down next year,for instance,an ornamental metal business might want to postpone asset sales or other unusual transactions until next year when the additional profits may not be as likely to put the operation into a higher tax ,conversely if income and profits are down this year,disposing of unneeded equipment or business assets via a profitable sale just might generate extra income,income taxed at the operation’s current low tax rates.Depending on the circumstances,a number of legitimate strategies a metal fabricating business can employ before year’s end will help them remain in the same bracket this year,next year,and for many year basic year-end savings strategies include:Delaying Collections:A cash basis metal fabricating operation candelay year-end billings until late enough in the year so paymentswill not come in until the following year.Accelerate Payments:Wherever possible, prepay deductiblebusiness expenses,includingrent,interest,taxes,insurance,,keep in mind that the tax ruleslimit tax deductions for some prepaid expenses.Accelerate Large Purchases:Close the purchase of depreciablepersonal property or real estate within the current year.Accelerate Operating Expenses:If possible,accelerate thepurchase of supplies or services or the making of repairs.Accelerate Depreciation:Elect to expense or immediatelywrite-off the cost of new equipment instead of depreciating ,thenew Section 179 tax rules now permit every metal fabricator todeduct,as an expense,up to $250,000 in expenditures for newequipment.Naturally,what a particular business can do depends a great deal on the accounting method used by the cash basis metal fabricatingoperation,for example,deducts expenses as paid and receipts become income when received----or made accrual-basis business realizes income when billed and expenses when incurred----regardless of when income is actually,received,or when payment is made.This year’s law changesThe American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) earlier this year extended a number of expiring provisions and created a few more that will affect the year-end planning example:First-year 50% bonus depreciaton:ARRA extended the 50% bonusfirst-year depreciation allowance available for 2008 for 2009.Increased Section 179 expensing:During 2009,ornamental metalbusinesses can choose to expenses and immediately deduct up to$250,000 of the cost of qualifying property and $250,000 maximumexpensing amount is reduced if the cost of all Section 179 propertyplaced in service in 2009 exceeds $800,000.S corporation built-in gains holding tax years beginning ineither 2009 or 2010,ARRA eliminates the corporate level tax on thebuilt-in gains of an S corporation that converted from regular‘C’ corporation status at least seven tax years before thecurrent tax year.Going,going,goneMaking year-end planning more urgent than usual,a number of provisions in our tax law expire in the expiring provisions are: The tax credit for research and experimentation expenses.Increased alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amounts.15-year straight-line cost recovery for qualified leaseholdimprovements,qualified restaurant buildings andimprovements,and qualified retail improvements.Additional first-year depreciation for 50% of basis of qualifiedproperty.Increase in expensing to $250,000/$800,000.Expensing of “Brownfield’s”environmental remediation costs.Empowerment zone tax incentives.Tax incentives for investment in the District of Columbia.Renewal community tax incentives.The FUTA surtax of percent.Sixty-five percent subsidy for payment of COBRA health carecoverage continuation premiums.Reduced estimated tax payments for small businesses.Use of single-employer defined benefit plan’s prior yearadjusted funding target attainment percentage to determineapplication of limitation on benefit accruals.Tax tail should not wag the dogThere is a great deal of pressure in many metal fabricating businesses to continue cutting costs,including coincides with increased scrutiny of tax returns on many levels of opportunities for tax deductions without running afoul of cash-strapped,state and local tax authorities should play a role in the planning process.On a similar note,the financial or operational strengths of a business transaction should always stand on their own,aside from any tax benefits derived from is also the question of whether a tax deduction should be taken or if legally,feasible,ignored.An excellent illustration of the flexibility of our tax rules are those governing metal fabricating business operating on the accrual basis has the opportunity to fix the amount of employees’bonus payments before January 1 --- but to pay them early next ,the bonuses are not taxable to employees until 2010,but are deductible on the operation’s 2009 tax return –so long as announced before the end of 2009,and paid before March 16,2010.On the other hand,while few businesses are in a position to pay employee bonuses,an ornamental and miscellaneous metalbusiness may benefit by delaying income until next ,however,there is constructive receipt when income is made available to the fabricating business.Tax planning all the timeAlthough tax planning should be a year-round process,a number of year-end strategies can reduce not only this year’s tax bill,but future tax bills as well.The owners and managers of every metal fabrication business should also be taking additional steps to ensure the success of the operation in 2010.Whether or not the metalworking operation is facing a large tax bill or severely lower taxable income,professional advice is almost a should however,be no uncertainty regarding the need for planning to minimize taxes this year as well as in future tax years.For your informationThe goal:You should always strive to keep your tax bill at the absolute key is good tax planning,and looking at what decision work best in the instance,sometimes it’s better to ignore a potential tax deduction one year to save more in a later year when tax bills are higher.Optimize your company:Do you have the best structure for your company,such as a partnership,proprietorship,or S corporationOther tips:Have you structured transactions so that payments received are capital gainsCan you shift income from a high-tax bracket individual,such as yourself,toa lower-bracket individual,such as a childOne way to accomplish this is to hire your children or make them a partner in the business,which allows the next profits to be shared among a larger the tax laws limit the shifting “unearned”income to children under age of 14,some opportunities do exist.永久节税筹划■学会怎样在合法范围内将税额减少到最低并一直保持下去现在是考虑降低金属饰品和五金经营税额的最好时机，因为那甚至可以比自然经济趋势下所能达到的税额更低。

中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译所在系管理系学生姓名 XXX专业会计学201X年6月中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译Small and medium-sized enterprise financial strategy choice indifferentFinancial strategic management of the significance of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, this paper expounds the development of enterprise needs not only scientific, fine daily management, need more forward-looking strategic vision and strategic thinking;Through the analysis of the financial characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in different development period, discusses the enterprise should be how to choose matching financial strategy problems, for the enterprise bigger and stronger, sustainable development, provides a feasible way of thinking.With the establishment of the modern enterprise system and market economic system reform deepening, the business activities of enterprises both contain the great vitality, also lies the great crisis.Small and medium-sized enterprises how to adapt to the environment, and maintain competitive advantage not only need to strengthen the daily management of science, fine, more need to have a forward-looking strategic thought, especially the financial and strategic thinking.Enterprise financialstrategy, need to consider the enterprise external environment and internal conditions, and many other factors.Due to the small and medium-sized enterprise its own characteristics, in financial strategy can't be consistent with the practice of large enterprise, it must has its own way.Seek financial strategy for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, make the small and medium-sized enterprise to do strongly does, sustainable development, has important practical significance for the enterprise.First, the significance of small and medium-sized enterprise financial strategy managementModern enterprise financial faces a diverse, dynamic and complicated management environment, enterprise financial management is no longer a specific methods and means of financial management, but absorbs the principle and method of strategic management, from the perspective of to adapt to the environment, use conditions, pay1中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译attention to the long-term problem of financial and strategic issues.In the small and medium-sized enterprises under the condition of relative lack of resources, to develop a suitable financial strategy, and at a reasonable allocation of scarce resources is particularly important.Enterprise financial strategic focus is the development direction of the future financial activities, goals, as well as a basic approach to achieve the goal and strategy, this is a financial strategy is different from other features of various kinds of strategy.Enterprise financial strategy is the overall goal of assemble, configuration, and use resources rationally, to seekbalanced and effective flow of enterprise funds, build enterprise core competitive power, finally realizes the enterprise value maximization.The several aspects of the goal is connected with each other.In the long term performance for, seek the sustainable growth of enterprise financial resources and ability, to realize the enterprise capital appreciation, and make the enterprise financial ability sustainable, rapid and healthy growth, maintain and develop the enterprise the competitive advantage.Strategic management in building enterprise core competitive power, need the support of enterprise financial management.Enterprise capital management as the important content of financial management must reflect the requirements of enterprise strategy, ensure the implementation of the strategy of its.Implement the strategy of enterprise financial management value is that it can maintain a healthy enterprise financial situation, to effectively control the financial risk of the enterprise.Second, the small and medium-sized enterprise financial characteristics analysisSuccessful financial strategy must be adapted to the enterprise financial characteristics, the development stage of conform to the enterprise overall strategy and the current and the benefits of stakeholders, the associated risks.Roughly divided into enterprise's development stage, initial, maturation and decline stages.Small and medium-sized enterprises in different stages of development presents the financial characteristics are different and should be based on the analysis of characteristics of its financial seek suitable for different development period of the small and medium-sized enterprise financial strategy.2中小企业财务战略选择研究中英文对照外文文献及翻译1)the initial financial characteristicsThe management risk of the enterprise life cycle of the initial stage is the highest, this is because the products on the market soon, a single product structure, the scale of production limited, the product cost is higher, profitability is very poor, also need to invest a lot of money for the new product development and market development, and product market whether to expand the product should be enough space for the development of is uncertain and compensation costs, core competence has not yet formed.To small businesses from the impact of the financial management activities of enterprises cash flow, operating activities and investment activities belong to the state of outflows greater than inflows, shortage of funds, cash flows is negative, it is difficult to form internal capital accumulation, financing activities is the only source of cash.This is the initial financial characteristics of the enterprise.2)mature financial characteristicsIn the beginning of small business success across, they will enter a relatively stable mature stage.In the process of enterprise tend to mature, the enterprise growth and prospect than as well as the management risk will fall;Enterprises have the product of the stability of the relatively high market share and account back continuously, has the high efficiency of capital turnover;At the same time, due to the new project, cash flow, less business net cash flow is positive, the enterprise the management activities and investment activities generally characterized by net income.Financing scale than the initial decline, and at this stage is given priority to with retained earnings and debt financing policy, a lot of debt servicing period, along with the increase of debt financing, rise to financial risk and operational riskequivalent.Dividend proportion also have improved, high cash per share net profit ratio make the dividend payment rate and payments will improve, investors return at this time more is through the dividend distribution rather than the start-up phase of the capital gains to meet.3)the recession financial characteristicsFor recession enterprises, reduce business and product death is inevitable, and the opportunity for profitable investment is very small, the purpose of business is the turning point in order to continue to make a living.To small business financial management activities of enterprises from the impact of cash flow, because the3。

企业增值税纳税筹划外文文献翻译最新This article discusses the importance of value-added tax (VAT) XXX is a tax on the value added to a product or service at each stage of n and n。

ns pliance.The first step in XXX includes identifying the VAT rates。

ns。

XXX。

It is also XXX.Once the VAT rules are understood。

ns XXX and report VAT。

as well as training XXX.XXX。

This can include taking advantage of VAT ns and ced rates。

as well as optimizing the timing of VAT payments and refunds.Overall。

XXX their financial performance。

It requires a thorough understanding of the VAT rules and ns。

as well as a XXX.译文本文讨论了对于公司而言，增值税规划的重要性。

增值税是对于每个生产和分销阶段所增加的产品或服务价值的税收。

公司可以通过增值税规划来最小化其税务责任，并避免违规行为的罚款。

增值税规划的第一步是了解公司运营所在国家的增值税规则和法规。

这包括确定增值税率、免税和门槛。

同样重要的是确定增值税注册要求和截止日期。

一旦了解了增值税规则，公司可以制定增值税合规策略。

这包括实施系统和程序来准确计算和报告增值税，以及培训员工以确保合规性。

增值税规划还涉及识别增值税节省的机会。

这可以包括利用增值税免税和减税，以及优化增值税支付和退款的时机。

企业财务状况评价外文文献及翻译摘要本文通过对国内外财务状况评价相关外文文献的调研和翻译，总结了不同学者对企业财务状况评价的方法和指标，以及其对企业经营决策和风险管理的影响。

同时，还分析了现有文献中的研究局限，并提出了相应的进一步研究方向。

引言企业财务状况的评价在企业经营决策和风险管理中具有重要的作用。

随着全球经济的不断发展，企业财务状况评价的方法和指标也得到了不断的完善和更新。

本文旨在通过对国内外相关文献的调研和翻译，探讨企业财务状况评价的相关内容。

方法本文通过检索相关数据库和学术期刊，筛选了一批与企业财务状况评价相关的外文文献。

然后，进行了文献综述和内容翻译，并总结出其中的关键信息和研究成果。

结果1. 企业财务状况评价方法根据文献翻译和分析，目前学者们在企业财务状况评价方面主要采用以下方法：- 财务比率分析：通过对企业财务报表的比率分析，评估企业的偿债能力、盈利能力、运营效率等方面的状况。

- 资产负债表分析：通过对企业资产负债表的分析，揭示企业的资产结构、债务水平和净资产价值等方面的情况。

- 现金流量分析：通过对企业现金流量表的分析，探讨企业的现金流入流出情况以及可持续性问题。

- 经验判断和专家评估：通过对企业经营情况的判断和专家的评估，综合考虑多个因素对企业财务状况的影响。

2. 企业财务状况评价指标研究发现，在企业财务状况评价中，常用的指标包括：- 流动比率：反映企业短期偿债能力的指标。

- 速动比率：更加严格地评估企业短期偿债能力的指标。

- 盈利能力指标：如净利润率、毛利率等，用于评估企业的盈利水平。

- 储蓄比率：评估企业的盈利再投资能力的指标。

- 负债比率：反映企业债务水平和承担风险的指标。

3. 对企业经营决策和风险管理的影响学者们的研究表明，企业财务状况评价对企业经营决策和风险管理有重要影响。

合理评估企业财务状况可以帮助企业制定更加科学的经营决策，提高企业效益和竞争力。

同时，对企业财务状况的评价还可以帮助企业及时发现和应对潜在的经营风险，降低经营风险带来的不确定性。

企业税收筹划外文翻译文献企业税收筹划外文翻译文献(文档含中英文对照即英文原文和中文翻译)Corporate Tax-Planning Effectiveness: The Role of Compensation-BasedIncentives (Ⅰ)John D. Phillips University of ConnecticutABSTRACTThis study investigates whether compensating chief executive officers andbusiness-unit managers using after-tax accounting-based performance measures leads to lower effective tax rates, the empirical surrogate used for tax-planning effectiveness. Utilizing proprietary compensation data obtained in a survey of corporate executives, the relation between effective tax rates and after-tax performance measures is modeled and estimated using a two-step approach that corrects for the endogeneity bias associated with firms' decisions to compensate managers on a pre- versus after-tax basis. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that compensating business-unit managers, but not chief executive officers, on an after-tax basis leads to lower effective tax rates.KEYWORDS tax planning; performance measures; endogenous treatment effects.I. INTRODUCTIONEffective tax planning, defined by Scholes et al. (2002) as tax planning that maximizes the firm's expected discounted after-tax cash flows, requires managers to consider their decisions' after-tax consequences. In this paper, I investigate whether after-tax accounting-based performance measures lead to lower effective tax rates (ETR), my empirical surrogate for tax planning effectiveness.1 The ETR, an income-statement-based outcome measure calculated as the ratio of total income tax expense to pre-tax income, generally measures the effectiveness of tax reduction strategies that lead to higher after-tax income. A lower ETR, however, can only proxy for tax savings and does not always imply that after-tax income and/or cash flows have been maximized.2 Despite this limitation, the ETR has been used to measure the effectiveness of spending on the tax function (Mills et al. 1998) and corporate tax department performance (Douglas et al. 1996). Also, lowering the ETR is frequently cited as a way to increase earnings (e.g., Ziegler 1997) and increase share price (e.g., Mintz 1999; Swenson 1999).Accounting research has addressed the relation between accounting-based compensation and managers' actions (e.g., Larcker 1983; Healy 1985; Wallace 1997). This paper is the first to address whether after-tax accounting-based performance measures motivate managers to take actions that help lower their firms' ETR and does so at both the chief executive officer (CEO) and business-unit (SBU) manager levels.Prior after-tax performance measure research has focused only on the determinants of compensation CEOs using pre- versus after-tax earnings (e.g., Newman 1989; Carnes and Guffey 2000; Atwood et al. 1998; Dhaliwal et al. 2000) and provides no evidence concerning after-tax compensation's effectiveness in lowering a firm's tax liability. Extending this investigation to the SBU level is motivated out of the apparent conflict between arguments that taxes should be allocated to SBU for incentive compensation purposes (e.g., McLemore 1997) with empirical observations that a majority of firms do not do so (e.g., Douglas et al. 1996).4 The current investigation provides evidence concerning the incremental effectiveness of explicitly motivating CEOs and SBU managers to incorporate tax consequences into their operating and investment decisions.A common issue in cross-sectional studies that attempt to link a particular management accounting choice to an outcome measure is that all sample firms may be optimizing with respect to the choice being investigated (Ittner and Larcker 2001). Without addressing the endogeneity of a firm's choice, it is difficult to provide evidence consistent with this choice leading to an improved outcome. To address this issue, the relation between ETR and CEO and SBU-manager after-tax performance measures is estimated using a two-step approach that helps correct for the potential endogeneity bias associated with these two choice variables. As a first step in implementing this approach, the Antle and Demski (1988) controllability principle is used to model a firm's decisions to adopt after-tax CEO and SBU-manager performance measures. To include a particular measure in a manager's compensation contract, this principle requires that the expected benefits from holding a manager responsible for a measure must be greater than the additional wage that must be paid to compensate the manager for the resulting additional risk and effort. Accordingly, an after- tax performance measure should be used as a contracting variable in a manager's incentive compensation contract only if the manager's involvement in tax-planning efforts leads to a difference between pre-tax and after-tax accounting results, which is generally reflected in the ETR. Consistent with prior research, the pre- versus after-tax CEO and SBU-manager selection models include variables that control for a firm's tax-planning opportunities because the presence of such opportunities reflect the extent to which a manager's actions can be expected to lower the ETR.Even if a manager's efforts are expected to lead to a lower ETR, a firm will use an after-tax performance measure only if the expected benefits exceed the expectedcosts of doing so. An after-tax performance measure is expected to lead to a lower ETR because it motivates the manager's increased cooperation with tax professionals to help identify, develop, and execute tax-planning strategies. McLemore (1997, 1) cites Hewlett Packard's tax director to support the need for SBU-manager involvement in tax-planning efforts:Tax planning is only as good as being involved in the early stages of such things as business planning, strategic planning, and merger and acquisition work....Your tax department has to be represented at the table when those decisions are made. The evolving model for the future is the tight integration of tax people with business unit planning.Costs associated with using after-tax performance measures include the additional wage that must be paid to compensate the manager for the increased risk due to potential tax law changes and the increased effort that results from including income tax expense in the compensation contract. Other potential costs associated with after-tax compensation include the administrative cost of allocating tax expense to a firm's SBU, increased tax examination costs, and increased tax authority scrutiny. Contrary to measuring after-tax compensation's benefits via observed ETR, there are no clear empirical surrogates for after-tax performance measures' costs. This study thus focuses on the realized benefits of compensating managers on an after-tax basis but does not provide evidence of the associated costs' magnitude.Proprietary data obtained in a survey of corporate executives are used to construct certain test variables, including those indicating whether CEOs and SBU managers are compensated using after-tax accounting-based performance measures. Publicly available data are used to construct ETR and other test variables. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that compensating SBU managers, but not CEOs, on an after-tax basis leads to lower ETR, resulting in an estimated median tax savings of $13.3 million annually. Sensitivity tests performed on a subsample of firms with high simulated MTR (Graham 1996) provide further evidence that low-MTR firms' potential ETR-lowering actions that could have ambiguous effects on cash flows and after-tax profits are not driving this result. Further sensitivity tests help rule out the proportion of tax function outsourcing as an alternative explanation for the statistically and economically significant negative relation between after- tax SBU-manager compensation and ETR.The results contribute to the accounting-based compensation literature by linking after- tax accounting-based performance measures to SBU-manager involvement that is incrementally effective in lowering firms' ETR. Consistent with Guidry et al. (1999) who document bonus-induced earnings management at the SBU level, this finding provides additional insight into the effect that SBU-manager accounting-based incentives have on managers' actions. Also, the estimated explicit tax savings resulting from after-tax performance measures provide corporate decision makers with information relevant to the design of SBU-manager incentive compensation plans.The paper proceeds as follows. The next section sets forth the hypotheses tested in this study. Section III outlines the empirical models and estimation procedures used in testing these hypotheses. Section IV provides a discussion of the data and sample, including a brief overview of the survey used to obtain proprietary compensation data. Results are presented in Section V. The final section provides the conclusion and a discussion of the study's limitations.II. HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENTNewman (1989), Cares and Guffey (2000), and Atwood et al. (1998) investigate firms' choices of after-tax earnings as the contracting variable in CEO bonus plans. These studies hypothesize that firms with greater tax-planning opportunities, consistent with the Antle and Demski (1988) controllability principle, are more likely to use after-tax performance measures. Using proxies for tax-planning opportunities, these studies collectively find that multinational status, number of operating segments, firm size, and capital intensity are positively associated with after-tax CEO compensation. Atwood et al. (1998) also presents evidence that leverage is negatively associated with this choice.企业税收筹划的有效性：基于对报酬的激励作用（上）约翰D·菲利普斯康涅狄格大学摘要本研究探讨首席执行官是否修正主管和业务部门经理利用税后会计为基础的绩效措施，导致较低的实际税率，以报酬激励用于税收筹划的有效性。

文献出处：MUCAI G P, KINYA G S, NOOR A I, et al. Tax Planning and Financial Performance of Small Scale Enterprises in Kenya[J].2014：3：1236-1243.原文Tax Planning and Financial Performance of Small Scale Enterprises in KenyaMUCAI G P, KINYA G S, NOOR A IAbstractIn order to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of activities, reliability and compliance with applicable laws, small scale enterprises need to have adequate tax controls. The study sought to find out the extent to which expenditure on capital assets in tax planning, to determine how tax planning by Capital Structure influence performance of small enterprises, find out how tax planning through Advertisement expenditure influence performance of small enterprises and to assess how tax planning through Legal Forms of enterprise influence performance of small enterprises in Embu CBD. The study had a total population of one hundred and forty nine respondents and a sample of 30 percent was drawn from each stratum. The data was then presented in form of Percentages and Tables. The study found the influence of tax planning by capital structure, tax planning in investment, capital asset planning through advertisement expenditure and found that the Legal Forms of small enterprises in Embu CBD has no significant relationship. The study recommends that small scale enterprises should be ready to seek advice on tax planning. Further to this, the study recommends that there is need to have NGOs to sensitize the respondents as to the need to do formal tax planning as it could increase their Business profitability. Key Words: Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion, Tax Planning, Capital Structure.IntroductionThe concept of taxation has been a concern of global significance as it affects every economy irrespective of national differences (Oboh et al., 2012). Within thecontext of Africa, tax, a concept as old as mankind can be described as an amount, effort, contribution or service rendered either in kind (goat, cow, farm produce, clearing of grass etc.) or monetary value contributed into a common purse for the running of the society. According to Omotoso (2001), in his definition of the modern taxes, defined tax as a compulsory charge imposed by a public authority on the income of individuals and companies as stipulated by the government decrees, acts or case laws irrespective of the exact amount of services rendered to the payer in return. Thus, taxes constitute the principal source of government revenue and the beauty of any government is for its citizen to voluntarily execute their tax obligations without much coercion and harassment (Adedeji and Oboh, 2012).Tax evasion and fiscal corruption have been a general and persistent problem throughout history with serious economic consequences, not only in transition economies, but also in countries with developed tax systems (Raza, 2011). In general, tax evasion and corruption can have ambiguous effects on Economic growth: tax evasion increases the amount of resources accumulated by entrepreneurs, but it also reduces the amount of public services supplied by the government, thus leading to negative Consequences for economic growth (Roy and Raffaella, 2011). Previous studies highlight reports of declining effective tax rates and a rising proportion of firms that report little or no tax liability. To date, the maintained assumption in much of the literature is that aggressive tax behavior, rather than economic trends, is the driving factor behind this decline (Desai and Dharmapala 2009).The Kenya Revenue Authority (K.R.A) is the tax collection agency of Kenya. It was formed July 1, 1995 to enhance tax collection on behalf of the Government of Kenya. It collects a number of taxes and duties, including: value added tax, income tax and customs. Since KRA's inception, revenue collection has increased dramatically, enabling the government to provide much needed services to its citizenry like free primary education and Health Services to all. Over 90% of annual national budget funding comes from local taxes collected by the KRA (GOK, 2010).It is however important to establish whether the observed increased revenue collection effectiveness has resulted from aggressive tax management by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) or whether it is, in part, due to increased use of the new economy business model. This is important because the sources of tax avoidance have distinct policy implications. The policy response to tax avoidance arising from aggressive tax schemes and investments in tax planning is likely to be very different from the response to tax avoidance stemming from a shift in many firms' organizational, operating, and financing attributes, which enable them to exploit their operating flexibility to naturally align with tax incentives that generate tax savings (Drucker 2006).The decreasing trend in effective tax rates may not be solely due to aggressive tax management but Rather, firms' modifications to their business models resulting from changing economic trends potentially enabling them to reduce tax burdens without additional investments in tax planning (Blouin, and Larcker 2011). Performance of Small EnterprisesDifferent approaches are used for performance evaluation in which goal approach, time frame approach, balanced scorecard , system approach, and ineffectiveness approach are included (Jean-Francois, 2004). In stakeholder approach, centre of attention is the ability of a business to meet the needs and expectations of its stakeholders (Daft, 1995).Competing values approach expands the range of other approaches.By using competing values approach, four other models are developed in which rational goal; internal process, open system and human relations are included (Quinn and Rohrbaugh, 1983). Performance of an organization can be evaluated by focusing on problems and retarding factors that inhibit the performance of organizations (Camaron, 1984). Out of the above mentioned approaches, goal approach is the superlative approach to evaluate the performance due to its straightforwardness (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978). Most trendy approach of performance evaluation ofSME's is balanced scorecard approach. Balanced scorecard has four dimensions in which financial growth, quality, customers and learning growth is built-in (Kaplan and Norton, 1992).Balance scorecard actually focuses on maintaining symmetry between monetary and non monetary measures (Neely et al. 1996).Book-tax differences, on average, are systematically related to earnings growth, future stock returns, and earnings persistence (Hanlon, 2005) and among other implications, book-tax differences are useful measures in evaluating firm performance. Consistent with these studies, Shevlin (2002) and Hanlon, Laplante, and Shevlin (2005) find that while book income explains a firm's annual stock returns better than estimated taxable income, estimated taxable income, on average, has incremental explanatory power for book income. However , there is little evidence regarding taxable income as an alternative performance measure and, in particular, cross-sectional differences in firms that mitigates or enhances the ability of taxable income to inform investors regarding firm performance (Lev and Nissim, 2004).Some SME's compare their performance with that of other SME's. They evaluate their performance by means of comparative analysis. Performance can also be evaluated by means of ineffectiveness approach. In ineffectiveness approach, focus is on the factors that hampers the feat of organizations. Therefore this study seeks to investigate the extent to which Tax Planning influences Financial Performance of Small Enterprises in Embu town CBDTax PlanningThe implementation situation of SME income tax planning is distorted tax planning, that is to say, on the one hand, more and more SME pay tax in accordance with the law, and on the other hand, because of the role of the interest mechanism and other various reasons, more and more SME tax-related cases appear (Karing and Wanjala, 2005). According to the survey, the vast majorities SME have not yet started or are considering carrying out tax planning, which can not fight for the legitimate tax interests and ruin financial interests leading to a large number of emerging additionaltax burden (Fjeldstad and Rakne, 2003). In addition, SME tax planning is treated unreasonable. Due to the limitations of the concept, SME tax planning activities often encounter misunderstanding, punishment and censor from some basic taxation law enforcement agencies (Karing and Wanjala, 2005).Tax law is said to be barely connected with the universe and with universal law as we understand it. However, tax law is founded not only on principles but also on practicality. There is no element of perpetuity about tax law, only the constant clash of the immediate and semi permanent (Kibua and Nziok, 2004). A State cannot run a democracy well without taxation and a taxation system cannot be run well without democracy. Oliver Wendell Holmes has said on one occasion, "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society" (Neely et al. 1996).Statement of the ProblemTax reform today has been moving towards considering new legislation, such as whole new taxes or reliefs, rather than patching of existing taxes by either increasing or decreasing the amount of taxation. This breaks down into the fact that there are ongoing considerations of widening the tax base. Kenya is no exception to this and there are ongoing considerations into taxing the informal or "jua kali' sector including the taxation of the "mitumba', the second hand clothing industry as well as the taxation of all informal tax payers of small amounts.A question that appears to generate surprisingly little debate in Kenya is the scope for legally mitigating taxes payable by individuals and corporate entities. Tax planning is bound to gain increasing significance with the ever greater aggressiveness and sophistication of the Kenya Revenue Authority and other tax collecting bodies. The trend of increased aggressiveness and sophistication in tools and methods is occurring against a backdrop of a public policy of domestic sources being the primary sources of revenues for budgetary purposes. This results in governmental pressure on tax collecting agencies to improve their revenue collection performance. The result of this trend is the more stringent enforcement of taxation laws. The past and presentpractice by many of outright evasion is, and likely will continue to be, fraught with risk.Examining the relation between the new economy business model, tax avoidance and investments in tax planning is important as previous Studies in the tax avoidance literature generally examine how specific firm attributes are related to tax avoidance independently, rather than investigating how firms' overall business models facilitate or hinder effective tax planning (Frank, Lynch, and Rego 2009). Hanlon and Heitzman (2010) argue that despite the much literature, these do not explain the variation in tax avoidance very well. Therefore due to this and such seemingly inexorable trends, the question of tax mitigation by legitimate avoidance naturally occurs. This study intends to find out the influence of small Enterprises tax planning within the current legal environment so as so minimize their tax burden. ConclusionDue to the corruption levels, low business growth, and management of public finances in the economy, where there is a great extent of corruption, has a related to a high level of tax evasion and the study concluded that there was no relationship between tax planning in investment in capital asset and performance of small enterprises in Embu CBD. The study concludes no significant relationship. The study concludes also that no significant relationship exists between tax planning through advertisement expenditure and performance of small enterprises in Embu CBD and also concluded there was no significant relationship the Legal Forms of enterprise tax planning and performance of small enterprises in Embu CBD. RecommendationsThe tax authorities should address the lack of formal tax planning as this may be a way of evading taxation in the name of tax avoidance. The small scale enterprises should also be ready to open up to advice on tax planning to make savings lather than playing a hide and seek game with tax authorities. Further to this, the study recommends that there is need to have NGOs to sensitize the respondents as to theneed to do formal tax planning as it could increase their Business profitability Implications on Policy Theory and PracticeThis study though confined to investigate the influence of tax planning on financial performance of small scale enterprises has established that little tax planning take place among the small enterprises and therefore tax Authorities and the chamber of commerce should write a position paper to address the awareness and use of tax planning by small scale enterprises. This would improve the growth rate of the small enterprises and there after the growth of the economy.译文肯尼亚小规模企业的纳税筹划与财务业绩保罗，萨洛姆，努尔摘要为了确保活动的效率和有效性，适用性法律的可靠性与遵从性，小规模企业需要有足够的税收管制。

企业所得税税收筹划研究外文翻译文献(文档含中英文对照即英文原文和中文翻译)Study on the Tax Planning of Enterprise Income TaxHongceng Cao & Xiaohui XuCollege of Economics, Shenyang UniversityShenyang 110044, ChinaGuojie AoDepartment of Accounting and Financial Affairs, Shenyang UniversityShenyang 110044, ChinaAbstractThe enterprise income tax occupies is very important status in the tax paying of enterprise, and it has large space of tax planning. Under the background that the new enterprise income tax law was issued, we discussed the problem how to use tax planning to reduce the tax burden of enterprise and realize the maximization of the total profit for the enterprise. In this article, we studied the tax financing in the stage of enterprise financing from the selection of financing mode and the confirmation of financing channel, and put forward that the enterprise should select the liability financing mode to the largest extent in the critical risk range of equity structure. We studied the tax planning in the stage of investment of enterprise from three aspects including correctly selecting theinvestment direc tion, confirming proper enterprise organization form and selecting tax saving investment subject. We studied the tax planning from two aspects such as income and charge deduction. We studied the tax planning in the distribution stage of enterprise management result from first utilizing taxable income to compensate the loss, the loss recovering sequence of domestic investment profit return and the profit distribution strategy in the low tax region. For above aspects, we all put forward our own new theoretical opinions.Keywords: Enterprise income tax, Tax planning, Tax preferenceComparing with the old enterprise income law, the new enterprise income law changed in many aspects such as the taxpayer, the pre-tax deduction, and the tax preference, which put forward new task for the tax planning of the enterprise income tax. Under the background of new enterprise income tax, we will discuss the tax planning in the main stages such as the enterprise financing, investment, management and distribution.1. Tax planning in the stage of enterprise financingThe tax planning of the income tax in the stage of enterprise financing mainly includes the contents about the financing mode and the financing channel.1.1 Tax planning of financing modeThe financing modes of enterprise mainly include the equity financing and liability financing, and two different financing modes will produce different tax results. Generally speaking, under the fixed tax rate level, the liability financing can produce the interest rigid cost which can be reported before tax. When the account profit is adjusted as the taxable income, the tax law allows that the interest expenditure induced by the liability can be deducted before tax in the same interest rate regulated by the Bank in the same period, which equals that the state finance assumes a quarter of interest cost fro the enterprise. The equity financing is the flexi ble cost of bonus stock which can be reported after tax. The mode that the enterprise provides bonus stock and dividend to the investors is only one item of the distraction of post-tax profit (net profit), and it must be distributed after tax. The tax saving difference between two financing modes is very obvious. In the equity structure of enterprise, the proportion of the liability equity is higher, and the saving effectof the tax cost is more significant. So under the prem ise that the rate of or return on inv estment is higher than the liability cost rate, enhancing the proportion of liability financing will bring extra economic benefits for the owner of the enterprise, and finally increase the value of the enterprise. But we should also pay attention to that will increase the financial risk of the enterprise, and excessive liability will even induce the ab normality of the enterprise equity structure, and the liability crisis will make the financial status of the enterprise fall into collapse. Therefore, before the enterprise makes the tax planning of financing mode, it must ensure that the equity structure is in the critical risk range.1.2 Tax planning of enterprise financing channelThe financing channels of enterprise mainly include bank loan, self-accumulation of enterprise, inter-enterprise lending interior collection of en terprise, bond or stock issuance and commercial credit. Under usual situation, the sequence of the tax burden from heavy to light is self-accumulation of enterprise, bank loan, inter-enterprise lending and interio collection of enterprise. The prin ciple of tax planning of financing channel is that under the premise that the equity structure is to select the channel with higher profit and lower harm in the critical risk range, through comparing the advantages and disadvantages of various financing channels.2. Tax planning in the investment stage of enterpriseFor the tax planning in the investment stage of enterprise, we mainly consider three aspects, i.e. the selection of investment direction, the selection of enterprise organization form and the selection ofinvestment mode.2.1 Selecting correct investment directionThe new enterprise income tax established the new tax preference which gave priority to the industrial preference assisted by the regional preference, giving attention to the social advancement . Investors should select the investmen industry to reduce the tax burden according to the regulations about the national industrial policies and tax preference and response the industrial policy gui dance of the government. First, because the industrial select possesses strategicmeanings for the development trend of the enterprise, so when the investors make the decision of industrial investment they should scientifically demonstrate the investment and carefully make the decision, and they should consider not only their own industrial advantages, but also national industrial support policies, industrial tax preference policies, and make the rare resources of the enterprise to the green sunrise industries such as the agriculture, scientific technology environment protection and energy saving. Second, the enterprise income tax regulated regional preference for Chinese western regions, minority regions and special economic zones, and the enterp rise should study out multiple selectable investment programs in possible investment regions, and it should not only compare the cost incomes of various regional investment programs, but compare the tax levels of various programs, and make the comprehensive evaluation for the comprehensive benefits of variou s regional investment programs, which can not only reduce the tax burden, but find the regional investment program with maximum economic benefit.2.2 Selecting proper enterprise organization formThe tax planning of enterprise organization form should mainly consider four parts including establishment, expansion, division and merger. First, we will study the tax planning when the enterprise is established and select the organization form. According to the organization form, the enterprise types include individual proprietorship enterprise, partnership enterprise and limited corporation which can be divided into limited liability company and joint stock limited partnership, and because the tax system regulates different tax burden levels for the enterprises with different organization forms, so the establishment costs and advantages of different organization forms are different, and the tax is one of factors we should consider when we select the organization form of the enterprise. Especially when the organization form of the enterprise has large influence to the production and management, the tax will be the important factor which we should consider, and investors can select the organization form of the ent erprise to reduce the tax burden for the enterprise. Second, we will research the tax planning when the enterprise is expanded and needs to select the organization form. Enterprise always actualizes the scale expansion by increasing branches, but the tax policies for the branches with different forms in the tax law are obviously different, so enterprise should select the organization form of the branch. For the filiale and the subsidiary company, they respectively have their advantages and disadvantages for the tax, so the loss of the branch can counteract the gain of the parent company and reduce the total taxable income of the company. The subsidiary company and the parent company are regarded as two entities in the law, but the subsidiary company can obtain various tax preference policies regulated by the laws or local government. So the enterprise should comprehen sively consider the profit ability of the branch when it selects the form of the branch, and it should adopt the form of filiale when the branch is in the loss period, and adopt the form of subsidiary company when the branch is in the profit period. Third, we will study the tax planning in the division and merger of the enterprise. According to the regulations of the enterprise income law, enterprises should pay the income tax by 25%, but it also regulates that the small-sized profit-mak ing enterprise can pay the income tax by 20%, so the middle and small-sized enterprise can adopt the division measure to separate the branch from th e enterprise to reduce the taxable income and the tax burden. Theenterprise income tax regulates that the profitable enterprise a nnexes unprofitable enterprise, it can use the accumulated loss of the unprofitable enterprise to counteract the profit of the profitab le enterprise and reduce the taxable income and the tax burden. Therefore, in the merger of enterprises, the profitable enterprise can reduce the enterprise income tax by annexing unprofitable enterprises.2.3 Selecting the investment subject of tax savingAccording to different forms of investment subject, the investment of enterprise can be divided into monetary investment, tangible investment and im material investment. The monetary investment doesn’t increase the tax burden of investors, but it w ill influence the cash flux and payment ability of the enterprise. Different tax regulations aim at different tangible investment types, for example, fo r the estate investment, investors need not pay relative sales tax (if investor belongs to the real estate enterprise, the land value increment tax needs not be paid temporarily), and the depreciation of the estate can be deducted before tax to reduce the tax base of the en terprise income tax. For the sock-in-trade investment, the tax law will regard it as the sales goods and increase the tax bases of the value increment tax and the enterprise income tax, and the enterprise need pay the increment tax and the enterprise income tax. The immaterial investment can deduct the withholding income tax for the enterprise, and realize the deduction before tax through amortization year by year, which can reduce the tax base of the enterprise income tax. So when the enterprise selects the investment subject, it can select the tangible investment and immaterial investment which are better than the monetary investment from the view of the invested enterprise. Certainly, for the view of investing enterprise, it will assume more tax burdens such as the enterprise income tax, the increment tax and the consump tion tax when it selects the tangible investment and immaterial investment, so the investing enterprise should comprehensively consider the tax burdens of two parties to select the proper investment form.3. Tax planning in the production and management stage of enterpriseThe tax base of the enterprise income tax is the taxable income amount which equals to that an enterprise’s total income amount of each tax year deducts the tax-free incomes, tax-exempt incomes, each deduction items as well as the permitted remedies for losses of the previous years. And the income items, tax-free incomes and tax-exempt incomes and each deduction items are all generated in the production and management of the enterprise. So the tax planning of the enterprise income tax in the production and management can be implemented from two items such as the income items and the deduction items.3.1 Tax planning of incomeThe total income amount of the enterprise in the present term is decided by the sales amount of the product, the unit sales price of the product and the selected sales mode of the product, so the tax planning of the enterprise income tax about the income mainly includes the scale of production and sale, the sales price and the sales mode. First, for the planning of production and sale scale, under the premise of certain sale unit price, the income scale of the enterprise is decided by the sales amount. The scale of production and sale belongs to the item independently controlled by the enterprise, and the scale of production and sale will influence the tax burden of the enterprise which will influence the scale of production and sale in the same way. Therefore, when the enterprise confirms the scale of production and sale, it must consider the tax burden at term. According to the en terprise’s self management ability, the enterprise should find the critical point of profit and loss, and seek the scale of production and sale with maximum profits. Second, for the planning of sales price, under the premise of certain production and sale amount, the income scale of the enterprise is decided by the price level which is also the item independently controlled by the enterprise. The enterprise should consider many factors such as the cost level, the market de mand and thecompetition strategy, and the tax burden level is the important factor which should be considered by the enterprise, and the confirmation of the sales price can not only include the pre-tax income and income tax of the enterprise, but will directly influence the increment tax and other relative taxes. In the tax planning of income, we should take the sales price as the factor we should mainly considered. Third, for the planning of sales mode, in the sales proce ss of the product, the enterp rise possesses the independent selection right to the sales mode, and different sales mode always apply in different tax policies, i.e. the treatment difference of tax exists in this aspect, which offers the possibility to utilize different sales mode to plan the income tax. In a word, under the premise disobeying the tax law, the enterprise should compress the income scale which has exceeded the critical point of the tax rate from the sales scale and the sales price, and make the enterprise obtain the preference policies of low tax rate. For the selection of sales mode, the enterprise should delay the implementation of the income and the tax obligation to the best, which will not only compress the income scale in the present term to make the enterprise obtain the preference policy of low tax rate, but also make the enterprise obtain the profit of interest-free loan because of delaying the implementation of tax obligation.3.2 Tax planning of cost charge deductionThe payout of the enterprise can be divided into the profitable payout and the capital payout according to the time of the profitable term. The profitable payout should be reported in th e present cost charge, and the capital payout is divided and respectively reported in the cost charges of the present and future terms. For these two sorts of payout, the planning of the enterprise income tax should treat them differently.3.2.1 Tax planning of profitable payoutBecause different situations of profit and loss, and different tax preferences will differently influence the tax planning of enterprise, so we should respectively plan the tax of the profitable payout aiming at different situations of profit and loss. First, suppose the enterprise is profitable, because the profit able payout can be deducted from the enterprise income tax, the enterprise should select the planning method with large prophase cost. To make the tax deduction effect of the cost exert its function as soon as possible, and delay the realization of the pr ofit, then enterprise should delay the tax obligation time of the income tax. Second, suppose the enterprise is in loss, the planning method should be combined with the loss remedy of the enterprise. The enterprise should try to make the cost charge in the year with pretax loss remedy higher and make the cost charge in the year w ithout or incompletely with pretax loss remedy lower, and accordingly ensure the tax reduction effect of the cost charge will be exerted to the largest extent. Finally, suppose the enterprise is enjoying th e preference policy of the enterprise income tax, because the taxdeduction effect of the cost charge in the tax deduction period will completely or pa rtly be deducted through the deduction preference, so the enterprise should select the planning method which has few costs in the tax deduction period and has more costs in the non-tax-deduction period.3.2.2 Tax planning of capital payoutAs the modernization degree of enterprise is gradually enhanced, the proportion of the purchase payout of the long-term assets such as the fixed assets and immaterial assets which reflect the progress of the technology of the enterprise is higher and higher, and the tax planning of the fixed assets depreciation and the immaterial assets salesmanship possesses special importance in the tax planning of th e enterprise income tax. First, the tax law doesn’t recognize the devaluation preparation of long-term assets which the enterprise picks up, but the taxpayer can utilize the relative regulations about the subseq uent expenses of the long-term assets to adjust the depreciation base. The enterprise should combine the long-term development, rebuild the fixed assetsdesignedly, enhance the technical level of the enterprise, and improve the comprehensive competition strengthen of the enterprise. At the same time , the enterprise can put the subsequent expenses acco rding with the capitalization cond itions into the fixed assets cost, increase the depreciation picking base, and accordingly increase the depreciation amount of the deduction, reduce the taxable inco me of the present term and save the tax. For various payouts which don’t accord with the confirmation conditions of long-term assets, they should be counted into the profit and loss of th e present term. Second, the “Chinese Enterprise Income Tax Law” regu lated that the fixed assets of the enterprise needed to be depreciated quickly because of technical progress, the enterprise could reduce the depreciation fixed number of year or adopt the method of quick depreciation. To reduce the depreciation year can quicken the withdrawal of the costs, move the anaphase cost charges to the anterior period, and move the prophase account profit to the latter period. When the tax rate is fixed, the delayed payment of the income tax equals to obtain an interest-free loan from the country. When the tax rate is not fixed, the extension of the depreciation term can also reduce the tax burden for the enterprise. And the selection of the depreciation method of the long-term assets should be scientific, reasonable and legal. Finally, when the enterprise is in the non-deduction period of the income tax, taxpayer should apply for reducing the residual proportion for the tax department in time according to the characters of the assets. When the residual proportion is reduced , the depreciation tax de duction will increase, which could not only maintain the taxpayer’s right, but bring large tax benefit for the taxpayer.4. Tax planning in the management result distribution stage of enterprise4.1 First utilizing the taxable income to compensate the lossFor the yearly loss of the enterprise, the tax law regulates to allow the enterprise uses the pretax profit in the next year to compensate it. And if the profit in the next year is not enough to compensate, the enterprise is allowed to compensate the loss year after year, but the longest term should be limited in 5 years. In this way, the enterprise can use the selection right of the assets price counting and amortization method allowed by the tax law, and the selection right of the expenses reported range standard to more report the pretax deduction items and deduction amount, and continue to induce the loss before the term of five years is at term, accordingly to prolong the term of the preference policy.4.2 Arranging the domestic investment return to compensate the loss according to the sequence from low tax rate to high tax rateAccording to the enterprise income tax, the investors’ after-tax profits returned from the associated enterprise should pay the income tax, but if the enterprise which is the investor has loss or past yearly loss which has not be remedied, the returned profit can be used to remedy the loss, and for the surplus part, the enterprise should pay the income tax. Therefore, if the investor is the enterprise which can be applicable for different income tax rates, the enterprise can select the sequence from low tax rate to high tax rate, to use th e returned investment profit remedy the loss and make the taxpayer’s income tax reduce to the least level.4.3 Keepin g that the investment return in the low tax region doesn’t be distributedIn the existing enterprise income tax, for the taxpayer’s profit returned from other enterprise which has paid the income tax, the tax amount of the tax payment can be adjusted when computing the income tax of the enterprise. If the profit of the invested enterprise has not be distributed to the investors, the investors need not to pay the income tax, and in this way, to keep that the investment return in the low tax region doesn’t be distributed and turn it into the investment capital can reduce investors’ tax burden.ReferencesChinese CPA Association. (2008). Tax Law. 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