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The journalistic scandal that reached the headlines with the iconoclastic expression “LuxLeaks” has raised an EU wide debate about national tax administrations' advance ruling practices and it calls for a need to establish the acceptable boundaries between fair and harmful tax competition in...
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similar to MTIC, carousel and contra-trading frauds. All of these frauds exploit exemptions in the VAT, sometimes the …
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As the European Court of Justice rightly pointed out in the 1960’s, it makes little sense regulate national governments' provision of traditional subsidies to companies while leaving the option to grant financial benefits by other means unrestricted, for instance via the tax system. So, in...
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Multinational corporations shift a large share of their foreign profits to tax havens and, due to this corporate tax avoidance, governments worldwide lose a portion of their tax revenues. In this paper we study the consequences of multinational tax avoidance for the structure of government tax...
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The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...
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exemptions and differentiated rate structures violate the logic and functionality of the VAT. The exemptions distort input …
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taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious consequences. The VAT exemptions distort input choices, stimulate … uneconomical self-supply, and complicate administration and compliance. The welfare costs of the exemptions can be estimated at one … of the exemptions and the introduction of a single rate in conjunction with a reduction in the standard rate should …
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