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This study aims to determine the effect of leverage, fixed asset intensity, and firm size on tax aggressiveness. The population in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the 2017-2020 period. The sample of this research was taken using non-probability sampling method with purposive sampling technique and certain criteria. The method used in this research is panel data regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that leverage has a significant positive effect on tax aggressiveness, while the intensity of fixed assets has no effect on tax aggressiveness, and firm size has a significant positive effect on tax aggressiveness. The implications of the results of this study provide input to companies in making decisions to minimize the tax burden paid so that companies can be more aggressive towards taxes.

Tax aggressiveness is the actions taken by the company to reduce its tax obligations. A company is said to carry out tax aggressiveness if the company tries to reduce the tax burden aggressively, either using legal methods, namely tax avoidance or illegal methods such as tax evasion. Although not all tax planning actions are carried out illegally, the more loopholes a company uses to avoid taxes, the more aggressive the company is considered. And this study aims to examine the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variable of this study. The independent variables are liquidity, ROA, leverage and firm size and the dependent variable is tax aggressiveness. And for the analytical method used is regression analysis, and descriptive analysis. Descriptive statistics are used to describe or describe the variables in the study. Descriptive statistics used are measures of tax aggressiveness of all sample companies. The description of the variables can be seen from the mean and standard deviation. The descriptive statistical test was carried out with the SPSS program. The results of the study found that liquidity has no effect on tax aggressiveness, then Renturn on Assets (ROA) affects tax aggressiveness, then leverage affects tax aggressiveness and company size affects tax aggressiveness.   Keywords: Liquidity, ROA, Leverage, Company Size, Tax Aggressiveness

Tax aggressiveness is the way to minimize the tax expense by tax avoidance and tax evasion. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of good corporate governance as proxied by institutional ownership and managerial ownership, as well as corporate social responsibility on the tax aggressiveness of mining companies listed on the IDX in 2015-2019 through earnings management as an intervention variable. The method of determining the sample using purposive sampling technique, in order to obtain a sample of 7 companies with 35 observational data. The type of data used is secondary data from annual mining company reports. Data were analyzed using SEM PLS with PLS 6.0 software program. The results prove that institutional ownership has a negative effect on tax aggressiveness, while managerial ownership, CSR, and earnings management have no effect on tax aggressiveness. CSR has a positive effect on management earnings, while institutional ownership and managerial ownership do not have effect on earnings management. Institutional ownership, managerial ownership, and CSR do not have effect on tax aggressiveness through earnings management