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This paper surveys and evaluates the corporation tax (CT) systems of the Member States of the European Union on the basis of a comprehensive taxonomy of actual and potential regimes, which have as their base either profits, profits and interest, or economic rents. The current regimes give rise...
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-border loss offset inherent to formula apportionment. In the medium run, in which only firms can adjust their strategies, tax …, contrary to output factors, input factors provide an insurance against tax revenue shortfalls due to loss-making affiliates …
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This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation of foreign interest payments received by individuals in accordance with the rules of their State of residence. The data suggest that the Directive, which is based on automatic...
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The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
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This study evaluates the economic effects of corporate tax coordination in the enlarged European Union using a computable general equilibrium model and a comprehensive set of scenarios for both a common corporate EU tax base and for full harmonisation of tax bases and tax rates. Our main...
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Following recent court rulings, cross-border loss compensation for multinational firms will likely be introduced, at … cross-border loss compensation is likely to intensify tax competition when, following current international practice, the … parent firm's home country bases the tax rebate for a loss-making subsidiary on its own tax rate. In equilibrium, tax revenue …
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This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...
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As predicted by loss aversion, numerous studies find that penalties elicit greater effort than bonuses, even when the … underlying payoffs are identical. However, loss aversion also predicts that workers will demand higher wages to accept penalty …, but do not significantly reverse it. Overall, loss aversion seems to play surprisingly little role in this setting. The …
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determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management …
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The importance of capital loss offset provisions in a world of risk is well documented in the tax literature. However … would be dissipated. In contrast, full loss offset would reduce that loss to approximately fourteen cents …
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