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Incorporation and taxation : theory and firm-level evidence
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2009
organizational form. -- incorporation ; governance ; taxes ; discrete choice models …This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854414
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Incorporation and Taxation : Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Egger, Peter H. - 2009
corporate governance and taxation. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation …This paper provides theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720232
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Saving Taxes Through Foreign Plant Ownership
Egger, Peter H. - 2007
This paper analyzes to which extent foreign plant ownership involves lower tax payments than domestic plant ownership. We employ a model of endogenous foreign subsidiary ownership to derive a set of empirically testable hypotheses about the differential taxation of foreign- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777830
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Incorporation and Taxation : Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Egger, Peter H. - 2009
This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158386
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Optimal policies against profit shifting : the role of controlled-foreign-company rules
Haufler, Andreas; Mardan, Mohammed; Schindler, Dirk - 2016
By introducing controlled-foreign-company (CFC) rules, the parent country of a multinational firm reserves the right to tax the income of the firm's foreign affiliates if the tax rate in the affiliate's host country is below a specified threshold. We identify the conditions under which binding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451112
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Tax revenue losses through cross-border loss offset : an insurmountable hurdle for formula apportionment?
Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017
This paper analyzes the relevance of firm losses for tax revenues and welfare when switching from separate accounting to a system of tax base consolidation with formula apportionment. We find that a system change unambiguously decreases tax revenues in the short run, in which neither firms nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611957
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Tax attractiveness and the location of patents
Dinkelbach, Andreas; Schanz, Deborah - 2015
This paper analyzes the impact of taxation on the location of patents within multinational groups. Based on groups with parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the determinants of three subsequent decisions: (1) the decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511367
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Patent boxes design, patents location and local R&D
Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; … - 2015
Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286491
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Withholding tax rates on dividends : symmetries vs. asymmetries in double tax treaties
Petkova, Kunka - 2020 - This version, 14 February 2020
Out of all double tax treaties (DTTs) in force in 2012, around 41% are symmetric and 59% are asymmetric, i.e., they prescribe different dividend withholding tax rates (WTRs) depending on the foreign investor's ownership fraction. The paper investigates the reasons for this phenomenon, namely why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216199
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Impact of controlled foreign corporation rules on post-acquisition investment and profit shifting in targets
Hagen, Dominik von; Harendt, Christoph - 2017
We investigate real investment, financial revenues and profits in formerly domestic firms once they enter a multinational entity (MNE) through an acquisition. We argue that following the acquisition, those targets are tax-optimized in a profit shifting context if they are acquired by MNEs with...
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