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Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location …
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This paper examines the nature of gender bias in tax systems. Gender bias takes both explicit and implicit forms. Explicit gender bias is found in many personal income tax systems. Several countries, especially those in Western Europe, have undertaken to eliminate explicit gender bias in recent...
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, introducing an inverted tax credit system, levying withholding taxes on all interest and royalty payments and levying withholding … taxes as an anti-avoidance regulation. We calculate the tax revenue effects of introducing a minimum withholding tax on … would increase tax revenue in particular in high-tax countries. Revenue redistribution would only arise if withholding taxes …
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labor and capital income, taxes on wealth, the corporate income tax, and consumption taxes. The paper concludes by …
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Ongoing tax reform processes, competitive pressures and the consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis have considerably shaped the tax systems of the Member States of the European Union in the last two decades. Our paper combines a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the...
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This paper discusses the impact and the appropriateness of tax incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union. First, we provide a survey of implemented tax incentives specifically targeted at SMEs in the 28 EU Member States. Building hereon, we measure the impact...
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This paper uses a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model to estimate the macroeconomic impact of a tax reform that replaces a corporate income tax (CIT) with a destination-based cash-flow tax (DBCFT). Two key channels are at play. The first channel is the shift from an income tax to a...
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This paper investigates the impact of taxation on firm survival, using hazard models and a large-scale panel dataset on over 4 million nonfinancial firms from 21 countries over the period 1995-2015. We find ample evidence that a lower level of effective marginal tax rate improves firms' survival...
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exemptions; reforming indirect taxes on goods and services (e.g., excises); and better managing compliance risks through …
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This paper investigates the role of tax incentives towards debt finance in the buildup of leverage in the nonfinancial corporate (NFC) sector, using a large firm-level dataset. We find that so-called debt bias is a significant driver of leverage, for both small and medium-sized enterprises and...
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