Abstract :
This study examines how the Corporate Governance (CG) affects the tax
management and contribute to the CG literature. The tax management measurement in
this study is using the Effective Tax Rate (ETR). This objective of this study is to gain
empirical evidence of the effect of corporate governance disclosure to the tax
management. Samples used in this study are Indonesian finance companies registered in
the Indonesian Stock Exchange during 2006-2010 period. This study uses purposive
sampling method to get representative samples for the determined criteria.
This study focuses on the number of the board of commisioner, percentage of
independent commisioners, and the compensation for the board of commisioners and
directors as one of the company management characteristics. This study found a
significant relation between the number of board of commissioners and the effective tax
rate. The percentage of the independent commissioners' compensation has no significant
influence to the effective tax rate, while the compensation for the board of commissioner
and directors has a significant influence to the effective tax rate. Studying the CG
mechanism not only can yield lower effective tax rate but also encourage managers to
be more carefull in managing tax.
Keywords : Corporate governance, board of commisioner, percentage of independent, compensation, effective tax rate, tax management.