Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis … incentives of bank levies to reduce leverage turn insignificant. Thus, bank levies can counteract the debt bias of taxation only …

We challenge the "OECD view" (Arnold et al. 2011) according to which a shift from direct to indirect taxation is … composition (in particular direct vs. indirect taxation). We can replicate the findings in Arnold et al. when focusing on the same …