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This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax … investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to …
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Most existing empirical evidence on the impact of profit taxation on multinational firm activity is based on cross …
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This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...
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Until 2009, the United Kingdom operated a system of worldwide taxation. Taxation of foreign income was deferred until … repatriated as dividends, leaving UK-owned multinational firms the possibility of avoiding UK taxation by delaying dividend … from taxation. This fundamental change had a number of straightforward implications for UK-owned multinational firms and …
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Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
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This paper analyzes the relevance of firm losses for tax revenues and welfare when switching from separate accounting to a system of tax base consolidation with formula apportionment. We find that a system change unambiguously decreases tax revenues in the short run, in which neither firms nor...
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Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit...
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This paper analyzes tax competition between countries which differ in their country-specific risk. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift profits. With high costs of profit shifting, higher-risk countries set lower...
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This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general … equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent …. We account for their differential impact under alternative methods of double taxation relief (i.e., credit, exemption …
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differential taxation of foreign- and domestically-owned subsidiaries. We assess these hypotheses in a data- set of 33,577 European …
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