The Effect of Executive Share Ownership, Executive Compensation, and Independent Commissioners on Tax Avoidance

Abstract

Tax is a contribution that mandatory to be paid by personal and corporate taxpayers. The government used that tax for national development. Tax becomes a burden for companies that it is mandatory to be paid. If the companies got larger income so that the taxes that must be paid become larger too. On the other hand, if the companies got smaller income, the taxes that must be paid will become smaller. This leads the companies to avoid taxes that mandatory to be paid by reducing their amount of taxes. This is called tax avoidance. Tax avoidance influenced by several factors such as corporate governance. This study aims to determine the effect of executive share ownership, executive compensation and independent commissioners on tax avoidance. This study uses manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for the period 2015-2019. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling method. The sample used in this study were 52 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) during the 2015-2019 period. Hypothesis testing is done using multiple linear regression analysis with the SPSS 26 program and a significance value of 5%. The results of this study indicate that: (1) Executive share ownership has no significant effect on tax avoidance, (2) Executive compensation has significant positive effect on tax avoidance, (3) Independent commissioners have no significant effect on tax avoidance, (4) Executive share ownership, executive compensation, and independent commissioners are only able to explain tax avoidance by 3,1%.