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.

The Impact of Capital Structure on Profitability at Syrian Private Banks

The formation of optimal capital structure is considered as one of the most difficult challenges that face management at banks, by exploring the capital structure at Syrian private banks, the researcher noticed that Syrian private banks depend on short term debt financing, however, the researcher sees that this kind of debt will have a weak impact on the profitability of Syrian private banks for not having long term debt financing. Thus this study discussed the impact of capital structure on profitability at Syrian Private Banks, it answered questions where if there were a significant impact of retention ratio, debt ratio, and leverage ratio on profitability measured by return on assets, return on equity, and net investment margin.