1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Tax is a compulsory payment imposed on individuals businesses and properties by Government source. Agyei ( 1983) defined tax as the transfer of resources from the private to the pub I ic sector in order to accomp1ish some or a nation's economic and social goals. Thus, government imposes taxes on individuals, commodities, properties, companies e.t.c. in order to obtain revenue. However, government uses taxation as a tool for regulating the level of social and economic activities in a nation, since what should be produced and consumed is greatly affected by costs. Taxation can be make costs differ thereby encouraging or discouraging production and consumption of these goods and service. There are different types of taxes that could be considered by a financial manager in making financing decisions such as custom duties, import duties. export duties, value added tax, mineral royalties, capital gains tax, capital transfer tax, company income tax, petroleum profit tax and so on. Their provision must be clearly noted by the financial manager as also their cost implications, possible incentives provisions as well as any cost of failures to comply with the provisions should be known.
A financial manager if faced with different alternatives sources of financing from which to decide to finance the business with. He could make combinations to achieve the optimum size of the expected capital structure needs. In taking the financing decisions, he has to consider the cost, risk and return associated to each financing alternative as well as the firm's needs, objectives and mission among others. The financing options or alternatives available to the financing manager ranges from overdraft facility (short-term funds) to medium term and long term funds' which among others include debt factoring .. bank fund sourcing (loans), syndicate loans, venture capital, debentures issues and equity financing (issues of share and internal sourcing by ploughing back profit. All these various sources could be grouped into debt financing and equity financing could make a difference in the value of the firm not. The financing structure of firms can make a difference on its cost, profit and value, some experts argue while others say that it does not matter whether debt or equity is used, yet others say that there is limit by debt capital can be combined with equity to reach on optimum capital structure at which the firm's value is maximized after which point additions of debts would cause decrease in the value of the firm. Debt financing are tax deductible you can deduct their costs before arriving to chargeable profit. Also, some of them bear fixed costs which ones paid; the rernaining profit goes to the owner of the firm. In better economic periods I ike boom periods, debt financing could add huge futures to a firm. However, equity financing are not tax deductive, that is. to say that their costs (like dividends) cannot be added to costs and be deducted before arriving to chargeable profit. However, some of them I ike ordinary shares dividend are declared and paid only when there is profit and cash, and so in periods of depression, the use of equity financing is better than the use of debt financing.
TABLE OF CONTENT
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
DECLARATION II
CERTIFICATION
DEDICATION IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT v
TABLE OF CONTENT Vl
LIST OF TABLES
CHAPTER ONE
l .O INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
I .2 ST ATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 3
l· .S OB)ECTlVE OF THE STUDY 5
CHAPTER TWO
2.0. LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2. r MEANING AND CLASSlFlCATlON OFT AXATION 7
2.2. EFFECTS OF TAXES ON INVESTMENTS AND FINANCING DECISIONS. 1 I
2.3. FlNANClNG OPTION l7
2.4. FIRM VALUE AND THEORY OF VALIDATION 22
2.5. THE THEORY OF CAPITAL STRUCTURES 24
CHAPTER lHREI::
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 29
3 .1 THE STUDY AREA 29
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSJS
l NTRODUCTl ON
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATlONS
SUMMARY OF FlNDINCiS
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
QUESTIONNAIRE
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