Altshuler, Rosanne - 2008
One of the important changes of the 1986 tax reform for U.S. multinationals is related to the allocation of interest … marginal cost of U.S. debt by about 38 percent for firms with excess foreign tax credits. Our empirical tests suggest that … allocate interest expense has a significant impact on the effective tax rate faced by U.S. multinationals. For U.S. domestic …