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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 …

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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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Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2020

This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...

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The Tax Sensitivity of Debt in Multinationals: A Review

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015

The OECD in its BEPS action plan 4 addresses tax base erosion by profit shifting through the use of tax deductible interest payments. Their main concern is interest deductions between outbound and inbound investment by groups. Studies of multinational firms show that the tax sensitivity of debt...

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Transfer Pricing and Debt Shifting in Multinationals

Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2013

There is a growing concern that governments lose substantial corporate tax revenue because of profit shifting through transfer-pricing and thin-capitalization strategies. Existing literature studies profit shifting and transfer pricing separately. In practice, the choice of debt-to-asset ratios...

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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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Multinationals, minority ownership and tax-efficient financing structures

Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2010

This paper presents a theory model that simultaneously accounts for the financing decisions and ownership structure in affiliates of multinational firms. We find that affiliates of multinationals have higher internal and overall debt ratios and lower rental rates of physical capital than...

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