A Cross-Tabulation to Know the Relationship between Financial Performance and Leverage on a Company’s Tax Reporting and Tax Compliance

Abstract

Purpose: Classify the characteristics of taxpayers in paying tax compliance based on financial performance, leverage, and tax reporting and analyze the relationship between financial performance and leverage on tax reporting and tax compliance companies. Design/method: This research was conducted at the Office of the Foreign Investment Tax Service in the Six Regional Offices of the DJP Jakarta, especially the Directorate General of Taxes (KPP PMA ENAM). The population in this study were corporate taxpayers registered at KPP PMA ENAM 2015–2018, namely 750 taxpayers. Sampling using the purposive method obtained as many as 660 companies. Cluster analysis and cross-tabulation were used as analysis methods in this study. Findings: In particular, corporate tax reporting depends on financial performance, but only on high-level corporate clusters that depend on leverage as well. While in the low company cluster (Cluster 1) tax compliance is influenced by these three variables, in the medium cluster (Cluster 2) tax compliance does not depend on these three variables, while in the high cluster (Cluster 3) tax compliance is only influenced by leverage. Originality: The cluster analysis method and the cross-tabulation method are used to analyze the effect of the financial performance and leverage variables on the tax reporting and tax compliance variables.