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Quality versus quantity: the composition effect of corporate taxation on foreign direct investment

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2007

This paper studies corporate taxation in a model where foreign investment of firms may affect the profitability of the …

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Quality Versus Quantity - The Composition Effect of Corporate Taxation on Foreign Direct Investment

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2021

This paper studies corporate taxation in a model where foreign investment of firms may affect the profitability of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316809

Taxes, Profit Shifting, and the Real Activities of Mnes : Evidence from Corporate Tax Notches

Hansen, Jaqueline; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2023

-tax locations leads to profit relocation to ‘next-best’ low-tax countries, allowing firms to circumvent domestic taxation. We do not …

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Tax competition: greenfield investment versus mergers and acquisitions

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2008

In this paper, we analyze tax competition in a model where investor firms have the choice between two types of investment, greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions. We show that the coexistence of these two types of investment intensifies tax competition in comparison to the case where...

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Consequences of the new UK tax exemption system: Evidence from micro-level data

Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Ruf, Martin; Wamser, Georg - 2012

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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Intercompany loans and profit shifting: evidence from company-level data

Buettner, Thiess; Wamser, Georg - 2007

This paper is concerned with tax-planning strategies of multinational corporations. A theoretical analysis discusses the choice of the capital structure in a setting where intercompany loans can be used to shift profits to low-tax countries. Empirical evidence is provided using micro-level panel...

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Corporate Profit Shifting and the Role of Tax Havens : Evidence from German Country-by-Country Reporting Data

Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, Florian - 2021

This paper is the first to use information from individual country-by-country (CbC) re-ports to assess the extent of profit shifting by multinational enterprises. Unlike other data often used to evaluate the extent of profit shifting and tax avoidance, CbC reports pro-vide a complete coverage of...

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Anti Profit-Shifting Rules and Foreign Direct Investment

Buettner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2014

This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals’ tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...

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Corporate Income Taxes Around the World - A Survey on Forward-looking Tax Measures and Two Applications

Steinmüller, Elias; Thunecke, Georg U.; Wamser, Georg - 2018

This study provides a survey on corporate taxes around the world. Our analysis has three main objectives. First, we collect tax data and calculate (forward-looking) effective tax measures for a large sample of countries and recent years. We particularly describe how these measures vary over time...

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The Tax-Efficient Use of Debt in Multinational Corporations

Møen, Jarle; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm; … - 2018

Some multinationals use the parent company as a lender to the group, whereas others set up an internal bank in a low tax jurisdiction. This paper discusses the link between capital structure choices and tax planning motives in multinational groups. We model the trade-off between the use of...

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