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This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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This paper presents a model that relates a multinational firm's optimal debt policy to taxation and to non-tax factors …
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Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on … the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the … location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of parent country taxation is estimated to be relatively large …
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In choosing transparency, firms must trade off the benefits from better access to finance against the cost of a greater tax burden. We study this trade-off in a model with distortionary taxes and endogenous rationing of external finance. The evidence from two different data sets, one formed only...
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In a cross-border takeover, the tax base associated with future capital gains is transferred from target shareholders … to acquirer shareholders. Cross-country differences in capital gains tax rates enable us to estimate the discount in … capital by 5.3% of its no-tax level. This indicates that capital gains taxation is a significant cost to firms when issuing …
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We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm subsidies in economically lagging regions of Great Britain, we test two alternative hypotheses. Economic geography models imply that firms at an industry’s core can sustain higher...
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This paper examines the appropriate taxation of financial services under a broad-based consumption tax. It is assumed …
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The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
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This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral and redistributional effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the...
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This paper considers the taxation of small business and entrepreneurial incomes in Poland. In both transition economies … and existing West European market economies, the efficient taxation of entrepreneurial incomes presents particular … to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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