This paper examines the effect of political connections and tax agressiveness in Indonesia. We used precentage of goverment ownership and firm's directors who have informal ties with leading politicans or goverment for measuring political connections. The effective tax rates used for measurements of tax agressiveness. Data of this research is secondary data from annual report listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange with 148 listed companies in period 2013-2015. Method of analysis used panel data estimation prosedures. We find firms with political connections pay tax at significantly higher effective tax rates than the other firms.

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This study examines whether corporate political connections influence tax aggressiveness in state-owned enterprises and private-owned enterprises in Indonesia. The observation period is 2015 to 2017. The population taken is a state-owned enterprise and a non-financial sector private sector business entity with 327 companies with a period of 3 years. Then the determination of the sample using a purposive sampling method used a sample of 148 companies. The results of this study indicate that the existence of political connections in state-owned enterprises and private-owned enterprises has a significant positive effect on tax aggressiveness.

This study aims to examine gender diversity, financial expertise, CEO duality on company performance in Indonesia. The author uses panel data testing with three years starting from 2018 - 2020 using STATA software. Panel data testing was carried out by conducting three tests: common effect model, fixed-effect model, and random effect model, including the model selection test, namely the Chow test, the Hausmann test, and the Breusch pagan LM test. The author also tested by conducting factor analysis with principal component analysis to carry out a linear transformation to change from most of the original variables used (ROA & ROE), and make them correlated into a new set of variables (firm performance). The results of this study conclude that the gender diversity variable has no effect on firm performance, but the variables of financial expertise and CEO duality affect firm performance.

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