The taxation of dividends is characterized by the fact that the taxable object stems from profits that will usually have already been taxed at the level of the distributing company. If the second layer of taxation at the shareholder level constitutes economic double taxation, to what extent, if...

The taxation of dividends is characterized by the fact that the taxable object stems from profits that will usually have already been taxed at the level of the distributing company. If the second layer of taxation at the shareholder level constitutes economic double taxation, to what extent, if...

Recent empirical studies find that foreign direct investment (FDI) by a multinational firm is not associated with a reduction of the firm's domestic activities. As it is often argued, this finding may imply that a country should not tax the firm's foreign profit income since this reduces foreign...

If conventional instruments of strategic trade policy are unavailable, the system of foreign profit taxation and transfer price guidelines may serve as surrogate policy instruments. In this paper, I consider a model where firms from two countries compete with each other on a third market. I...

Die finanzwissenschaftliche Theorie hat lange Zeit die Auffassung unterstützt, dass ausländische wie inländische Einkommen besteuert werden sollten (Anrechnungsverfahren). Mittlerweile haben viele empirische Studien ergeben, dass es gesamtwirtschaftlich effizienter sei, ausländische...