In Europe, the decline in the corporate tax rates has not been reflected in the tax-to-GDP ratios. This paper explores to what extent the observed trend can be explained by changes in the effective tax burden on corporate income, in the share of total income accruing to the corporate sector and...

This paper offers an assessment of European corporate tax regimes using forwardlooking indicators for corporate investment based on the Devereux-Griffith methodology. It draws on time series of average effective tax rates (EATR) using a detailed set of tax parameters for 27 EU Member States as...

As any non-lump-sum tax, corporate income taxation creates distortions in economic choices, reducing its efficiency. This paper reviews some of these domestic and international distortions and their most recent estimates from the economic literature. Distortions originating from income shifting...

This study highlights the importance of taxation for a very broad range of operations of companies in the Internal market. The evidence obtained from the responses provided by the 700 companies involved in the European Tax Survey strongly indicates that compliance costs of EU companies increase...

A report of the Activities of the European Union in the tax field in 2002.