Abstract :
Tax avoidance is a tax savings actionsthat are still in the realm of tax law (lawful fashion). Audit committee, audit quality, profitability (ROA), firm size (Size) are used as independent variables were estimated impact ontax avoidance as the dependent variable and proxied through Cash Effective Tax Rate (CETR)
This research was conducted on the Stock Exchange the period 2011 -2015. Data obtained by accessing the Indonesia Stock Exchange?swebsite. The samples in this study used nonprobability sampling method with purposive sampling technique in order to get a sample size of 30companies and the number of observations is 114times. Data in this study were analyzed with multiple linear analysis techniques.
The results of this study indicate that the proportion of profitability (ROA)has a positiveeffect on tax avoidance.And three variables do not affect tax avoidance are the amount of the audit committee, audit quality, firm size (Size).
eywords: tax avoidance, cash effective tax rate, audit committee, audit quality, profitability (ROA), firm size (Size)