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This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate … organizational form. -- incorporation ; governance ; taxes ; discrete choice models …
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the optimal structure of tax differentiation depends critically on the feasible level of corporate profit taxes, which in … turn depends on the degree of international tax competition. When tax competition is moderate and profit taxes are high …, favoring high-productivity firms is indeed the optimal policy. When tax competition is aggressive and profit taxes are low …
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The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a large panel of non-listed corporations, with a surge of...
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A fundamental issues in designing any fiscal regime for non-renewable resources is the balance between rent taxes and … that, even though they effectively involve the choice of distinct parameters at several dates, rent taxes are not subject …
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industrialized countries. Commonly accepted, corporate as well as individual taxes have a major impact on the costs of a SOP. In …
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This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and crossborder investment decisions. Investment can be realized in the investor's domestic business, in a foreign branch or in a foreign subsidiary. The relative impact on the optimal real investment alternative...
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In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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The well-known Johansson-Samuelson Theorem proves that, in partial equilibrium, comprehensive income taxation with a uniform tax rate is neutral in terms of investment decisions, if fiscal depreciation allowances coincide with economic depreciation. In this article we show that this result does...
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The paper evaluates the working of German CFC rules that restrict the use of foreign subsidiaries located in low-tax countries to shelter passive investment income from home taxation. While passive investments make up a significant fraction of German outbound FDI, we find that German CFC rules...
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