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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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-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 examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...
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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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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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The optimal mix of growth policies is determined within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and accounts for transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue ‘pick-the-winner' strategies by subsidizing highly productive firms more, or taxing them less, than their less productive counterparts. We appraise this argument by studying the optimal choice of effective...
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This paper studies fiscal foresight -- alterations of current behavior by forward-looking agents in anticipation of future policy changes – using variation in state job creation tax credits (JCTCs). Nearly half of the U.S. states enacted JCTCs between 1990 and 2007, and their unique...
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profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit … shifting to a low-tax country as well as a loss-related, inverted-type of transfer pricing from the low-tax to the high …
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