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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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Until 2009, the United Kingdom operated a system of worldwide taxation. Taxation of foreign income was deferred until repatriated as dividends, leaving UK-owned multinational firms the possibility of avoiding UK taxation by delaying dividend payments and keeping earnings abroad. In 2009, the UK...
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This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals' tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...
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to limit the leeway of multinational firms to exploit international corporate tax rate differences and relocate profit to … studies, we find evidence for tax-motivated profit shifting. The analysis further suggests that transfer pricing rules …
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This paper employs unique data on export transactions and corporate tax returns of UK multinational firms and finds that firms manipulate their transfer prices to shift profits to lowertaxed destinations. It uncovers three new findings on tax-motivated transfer mispricing in real goods. First,...
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profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit …
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This paper investigates the consequences of a series of alternative international tax designs on the strategy of a multinational enterprise regarding the cross border distribution of its investment and the choice of its financing behavior. We start with a world where no international tax rules...
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This article aims at analyzing the link between subsidiaries' capital structure and taxation in Europe. First we … shift profits from low-tax to high-tax jurisdictions. By letting the MNC choose both leverage and the percentage of profit … is estimated to raise its subsidiaries' leverage. -- capital structure ; default ; multinationals ; profit shifting …
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This paper examines the flexibility of multinational firms to use income-shifting strategies within a tax year to react to operating losses. First, we develop an analytical model that considers how affiliate losses can be adjusted by using the transfer prices of tangible and intangible assets,...
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This study develops theory and discusses implications of inflexibility in tax-motivated income shifting. We show that inflexibility to adjust income-shifting strategies within a tax year in response to losses implies that income-shifting incentives are based on the expected rather than the...
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