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This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation … savings. However, this result has to be interpreted with caution since the available data is scarce and not always conclusive …. -- savings taxation ; withholding tax ; information exchange ; European Union …
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This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on labor income and savings in a standard two-period life-cycle model with …
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life-insurance demand. -- savings ; life insurance ; capital income taxation ; bequests …
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interesting innovations and suggestions concerning how to tax international savings. We examine some of these advances, which we … then use to set forth and investigate a proposal for European and international savings taxation. That proposition combines …
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The tax competition for mobile capital, in particular the reluctance of small countries to agree on measures of tax coordination, has ongoing political and economic fallouts within Europe. We analyse the effects of introducing a two tier structure of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member...
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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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This paper challenges the view that tax base equalization by the so-called Representative Tax System (RTS) removes inefficient undertaxation in corporate tax competition. The innovation of the paper is that it focuses on a tax on corporate income, instead of the unit tax on capital considered in...
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The recent international agreement on a minimum effective corporate tax rate marks a profound change in global tax arrangements. The appropriate level of that minimum, however, has been, and remains, extremely contentious. This paper explores the strategic responses to a minimum tax, which the...
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This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
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