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This article reports on, and draws conclusions from, an investigation designed to gain insights into the extent to which tax is a motivator when large multinational companies choose where to develop, and ultimately locate valuable intellectual property (IP). The research undertaken by the...
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This paper provides the first theoretical and empirical analysis of how taxation shapes the joint allocation of risk … risk to high-tax countries to maximize risk sharing with governments and all their profits to low-tax countries to minimize … expected tax payments. However, transfer pricing rules requiring risk to be compensated with a higher expected return introduce …
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This paper provides the first theoretical and empirical analysis of how taxation shapes the joint allocation of risk … risk to high-tax countries to maximize risk sharing with governments and all their profits to low-tax countries to minimize … expected tax payments. However, transfer pricing rules requiring risk to be compensated with a higher expected return introduce …
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attributes like tax losses. At the same time, profit shifting imposes risk to governments as it may reduce tax revenues. More and …
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This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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Corporate patents are perceived to be the key profit-drivers in many multinational enterprises (MNEs). Moreover, as the transfer pricing process for royalty payments is often highly intransparent, they also constitute a major source of profit shifting opportunities between multinational...
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Intangible assets are one major source of profit shifting opportunities due to a highly intransparent transfer pricing process. Our paper argues that multinational enterprises (MNEs) optimize their profit shifting strategy by locating shifting relevant intangible property at affiliates with a...
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Intangible assets, like patents and trademarks, are increasingly seen as the key to competitive success and as the drivers of corporate profit. Moreover, they constitute a major source of profit shifting opportunities in multinational enterprises (MNEs) due to a highly intransparent transfer...
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