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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345628

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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Design and Consequences of CFC and GILTI Rules: A Review and Potential Lessons for the Global Minimum Tax

Overesch, Michael; Schindler, Dirk; Wamser, Georg - 2024

This chapter provides a description of one of the key anti-tax-avoidance rules to combat profit shifting by multinational corporations, so called Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) rules that directly target income in low-tax countries. We explain some key institutional features of CFC...

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Global Profit Shifting of Multinational Companies: Evidence from CbCR Micro Data

Fuest, Clemens; Greil, Stefan; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, … - 2022

This paper uses micro data from country-by-country reporting of more than 3600 large multinational companies operating in 238 jurisdictions to analyze global profit shifting to avoid taxes. These companies report 7% of their global profits in jurisdictions with effective average tax rates below...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377567