Studying the Impact of Both the Size and Capital Structure of the Registered Corporations in the Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities on its Level of Tax Avoidance

This research aims to investigate the impact of both the size of Syrian corporations and its capital structure on its level of tax avoidance. This study starts from number of previous studies which have indicated the possibility of a relationship between corporations characteristics and its effective tax rate, and thus between them and the level of tax avoidance. In order To achieve this goal, a survey study has been conducted on the Syrian registered corporations in the Syrian commission on financial markets and securities using secondary data with quasi-experimental design for the period from 2009 to 2014. The results of this research showed that there is no relation between the size of Syrian corporations and its level of tax Avoidance. However, it concluded that the decline in the debt volume of the corporate capital structure (represented by the leverage) is associated with a decrease in the level of effective cash tax rate and thus an increase in the level of tax avoidance.