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property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational … profit compared to their counterparts with no IP ownership. Patent boxes do not only lure reported profit. The pre-tax profit …
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This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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negotiation model replicates the predictions on the tax rate effects on transfer pricing, while adding new predictions. Profit … in both countries. Most importantly, profit shifting occurs even if tax enforcement is perfect. We analyze the effects of …
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Previous literature shows that income taxation significantly affects the behavior of high-income earners and business owners. However, it is still unclear how much of the response is due to changes in effort and other real economic activity, and how much is caused by tax avoidance and tax...
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, risks, and incentive schemes. First, the principal’s after-tax profit can increase with a higher corporate tax rate. Second …
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The OECD in its BEPS action plan 4 addresses tax base erosion by profit shifting through the use of tax deductible … multinational firms show that the tax sensitivity of debt is more modest than what one would expect given the incentives for profit …
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profit taxes is inherently unobservable to the researcher. To address this problem, we use a finite mixture modeling approach … find that investments of tax avoiders do not respond to host-country profit taxes at all, while those of non-avoiders do … profit tax rate of a host country is found to reduce the fixed assets of non-avoiders in that host country by 0.81%. …
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, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage … inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …
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We develop a positive model of multinational firm behavior and analyze a firm’s incentive to transfer an intellectual property (IP) right of uncertain value offshore ex ante, i.e. before its success or failure is realized. With an asymmetric treatment of losses in the home country, the...
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in 238 jurisdictions to analyze global profit shifting to avoid taxes. These companies report 7% of their global profits … the EU 27 member states are similar to the global average. 60% of the profit shifting is carried out by the 10% largest … multinational companies. We show that taking into account non-linearities in profit shifting and subsidiaries reporting zero profits …
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