The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the joint effects of apportionment and tax incentives on new capital expenditures. Specifically, we examine whether states with lower property factor weights in their apportionment formulae and/or lower corporate tax rates experience...

This study examines how variations in states’ corporate income tax regimes affect new capital investment by business. Using U.S. state-aggregated data from 1983 to 1996, we find in pooled and fixed-effects regressions that new capital expenditures by corporations in the manufacturing sector...

This study examines whether firms' advantage from lower explicit taxes (tax management) is mitigated by lower pre-tax incomes (implicit taxes) and whether this advantage creates sustainable competitive advantage. We investigate a sample of firms with low explicit tax rates prior to the enactment...

Using fixed–effects models of state corporate income tax (SCIT) revenues that account for the endogeneity of apportionment formula weights and tax rates, we find that states with a double–weighted sales factor experience lower SCIT revenues than do states with an equally–weighted sales...

As a direct response to the recent trend in corporate expatriations, politicians have questioned the patriotism of firms that reorganize outside the U.S. and introduced numerous legislative proposals designed to prevent corporate expatriations. The implicit assumption made in proposing this...