This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU … wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of … the firms in the sample. Our results suggest that due to border crossing loss-offset, the EU wide corporate tax base …

each other, it is often claimed that the EU fiscal framework, by reducing the budgetary room for manoeuvre and the … empirical evidence supporting this argument. In a sample of EU-15 countries over the past three decades, the introduction of the …