[Introduction] This 2016 report of the project TAXUD/2013/CC/120 presents estimates of the effective tax rates on investment in the EU member states, FYROM and Turkey as well as Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Japan and the United States. The work presented in this report updates for the year 2016...

Das Projekt befasst sich mit dem aktuellen Vorhaben zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung in den USA. Wenngleich Details noch offen sind, zeichnen sich eine deutliche Steuersenkung sowie eine Abkehr der Besteuerung des Welteinkommens ab. Im Falle einer Umsetzung der Reform wird sich die Rolle...

Over the past decade, policymakers, non-profit organizations, and the media have demanded greater transparency by multinational firms regarding their global operations and tax payments. These demands are motivated by the assumption that multinational firms engage in aggressive planning...

On 22 December 2017 President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This corporate tax reform can be considered the most signifi cant amendment of the US corporate tax code since 1986. Besides the reduction of the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act entails...

As of the beginning of 2021, the European Commission has restarted the formal process to develop a stable regulatory and tax framework to address the challenges of the digital economy. In 2018, the European Commission initially intended to gain political agreement on a Digital Services Tax (DST)...

We examine the capital market reaction to the announcement of the European Union (EU) to introduce a public tax country-by-country reporting (CbCR) regime. By employing an event study methodology, we find a significant cumulative average abnormal return (CAAR) of -0.699%, which translates into a...

We investigate multinational firms' activities in tax havens and regulatory efforts to curb these activities in three steps. First, we discuss the evolution of information exchange and disclosure regimes among tax authorities, with a focus on the recent Countryby-Country (CbC) reporting regimes,...

Anfang 2021 hat die Europäische Kommission den formalen Prozess zur Entwicklung eines stabilen regulatorischen und steuerlichen Rahmens zur Bewältigung der Herausforderungen der digitalen Wirtschaft wieder aufgenommen. Bereits 2018 wollte die Europäische Kommission eine politische Einigung...