Showing 1 - 10 of 25,211
income tax, but S-bank shareholders are taxed on their pro rata share of the entire earnings of the bank. The number of banks … shows that adjustment of S-bank earnings by estimates of Federal income taxes to make them comparable with the earnings of … shows that S-banks tend to out-earn their peers even if S-bank earnings are reduced by estimated Federal taxes, and that S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761852
create dependency between bank leverage and risk. Using a large international sample of banks this paper estimates the short … and long run effects of corporate income taxes (CIT) on bank capital structure and portfolio risk accounting for their ….8-1.4 percentage points in bank leverage and a 2-7-percentage point reduction in the average risk-weight of assets. While the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092307
using it to further address transport-sector externalities, which are of particular concern in metropolitan areas. At the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008726893
In 2008, the Czech government implemented a major overhaul of the personal income tax (PIT), replacing the previous progressive rate schedule with a single 15% rate levied on an enlarged base. This was accompanied by significant changes to the corporate income tax (CIT) and an increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498306
Tax reform is an urgent priority, as Japan needs as much as 5% to 6% of GDP of additional government revenue just to stabilise public debt, which has risen to 180% of GDP. In addition to raising revenue, tax reform should promote economic growth, address the deterioration in income distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045634
Korea has one of the lowest tax burdens in the OECD area, reflecting its small public sector. However, rapid population ageing will put upward pressure on government spending. The challenge is to meet the long-run need for greater expenditures and tax revenue while sustaining strong economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045955
, whereas relatively little revenue is collected from such bases as environment externalities, inheritances and, in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046187
adequately address environmental externalities is a tough challenge, arguably more so in Israel than in many other OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276992
This paper assesses the importance of taxation on foreign direct investment contributing to the literature in two ways. First, it relates bilateral FDI among OECD countries over the 1990s to a new set of estimates of corporate tax wedges that include many relevant aspects of FDI taxation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045668
We examine the informational role of targeted tax transfers used by local governments to attract corporate investment projects. The transfer may potentially be used to solve an information externality in which subsequent investments that follow the initial project may fail to occur even though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086407