Research Article

The Impact of Internet Use on Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Chinese Enterprises

Table 6

Robustness test.

VariablesReplace the Internet identification methodSamples with effective tax rate greater than 1 will not be deletedChange the measurement method of dependent variable
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)
Rate 1Rate 1Rate 1Rate 1EtrBtdRate 2

E-mail0.004
(0.001)

Both0.007
(0.001)

P_web0.003
(0.001)

Web−0.012−0.0120.0120.008
(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)

Constant5.0455.0575.060−5.953−4.8216.2274.107
(2.535)(2.536)(2.534)(2.606)(2.535)(1.066)(2.159)

Observations1,065,5631,065,5631,065,5631,066,7221,065,5631416,6711,416,671
R-squared0.5680.5690.5680.5590.5610.6980.533
Control variablesYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Industry trendYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Province trendYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Individual FEYESYESYESYESYESYESYES
Time FEYESYESYESYESYESYESYES

Note. ∗∗∗, ∗∗, and indicate the significance level of 1%, 5%, and 10%, respectively, and the t statistic value is in parentheses. The results of other control variables are not displayed in the table.