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The UK taxes business income at much lower rates than employment income. In this paper we describe the problems caused by that differentiation and assess the main arguments used to defend it. We summarise the Mirrlees Review's proposals for radical reform that would align tax rates across legal...
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, taxation, most of it has been applied to environmental externalities, and the externalities that arise from the actions of …
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Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...
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As any non-lump-sum tax, corporate income taxation creates distortions in economic choices, reducing its efficiency …, the effects of taxation on business location and foreign direct investment are the major sources of distortions. …. This paper reviews some of these domestic and international distortions and their most recent estimates from the economic …
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As any non-lump-sum tax, corporate income taxation creates distortions in economic choices, reducing its efficiency …, the effects of taxation on business location and foreign direct investment are the major sources of distortions. …. This paper reviews some of these domestic and international distortions and their most recent estimates from the economic …
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As any non-lump-sum tax, corporate income taxation creates distortions in economic choices, reducing its efficiency …, the effects of taxation on business location and foreign direct investment are the major sources of distortions. …. This paper reviews some of these domestic and international distortions and their most recent estimates from the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989544
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently proposed an interest barrier to fight tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). We use the introduction of such an interest deductibility restriction in Germany as a quasi-experiment and find significant corporate...
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This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …—and the mapping between these functions and various forms of taxation. Different types of taxation as well as expenditures on …
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This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax … investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to …
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The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
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