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Egger, Peter; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax … investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to …

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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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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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Tax Revenue Losses through Cross-Border Loss Offset: An Insurmountable Hurdle for Formula Apportionment

Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017

This paper analyzes the relevance of firm losses for tax revenues and welfare when switching from separate accounting to a system of tax base consolidation with formula apportionment. We find that a system change unambiguously decreases tax revenues in the short run, in which neither firms nor...

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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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Is it just Luring Reported Profit? The Case of European Patent Boxes

Köthenbürger, Marko; Liberini, Federica; Stimmelmayr, … - 2018

Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit...

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Tax Competition in Developed, Emerging and Developing Regions - Same Same but Different?

Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2018

This paper analyzes tax competition between countries which differ in their country-specific risk. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift profits. With high costs of profit shifting, higher-risk countries set lower...

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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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