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Scott D. Dyreng

Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Scott Dyreng is the Senior Associate Dean of Innovation and Professor of Accounting at Duke University. His research interests are in corporate tax avoidance, international taxation, and accounting for income taxes. He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, among others. He teaches managerial accounting to graduate students, and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Duke MMS program three times. He received his PhD at the University of North Carolina in 2008. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Business Administration · 2020 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Senior Associate Dean of Innovation · 2025 - Present Fuqua School of Business

In the News


Published April 9, 2025
Just How Much Do Tax Havens Really Cost Us?
Published October 14, 2021
Majority of Publicly Traded U.S. Multinational Firms Use Tax Havens
Published June 7, 2021
Three Potential Tax Changes Coming Out of Biden's Infrastructure Plan

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Recent Publications


Endogeneity and the economic consequences of tax avoidance

Journal Article Contemporary Accounting Research · March 1, 2025 Academic research investigating the economic consequences of tax avoidance is almost always interested in the consequences of intentional, deliberate actions undertaken to reduce taxes relative to income. Therefore, it is crucial that such research disting ... Full text Cite

The effect of US tax reform on the taxation of US firms' domestic and foreign earnings

Journal Article Contemporary Accounting Research · September 1, 2023 We quantify the immediate net effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) on the tax burden of corporate profits for public US corporations. We find similar reductions in effective tax rates for domestic and multinational firms, yet the entirety of multinat ... Full text Cite

Tax Incidence and Tax Avoidance*

Journal Article Contemporary Accounting Research · October 1, 2022 Economists broadly agree that the economic burden of corporate taxes is not entirely borne by shareholders but also borne in part by employees and consumers. We examine corporate tax avoidance in a setting where shareholders do not bear the entire economic ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 2008 Ph.D.