Attempts to measure the capitalization of local taxes into property prices, starting with Oates (1969), have suffered from a lack of local public service controls. We revisit this vast literature with a novel dataset of 947 time-varying local characteristic and public service controls for all...

It is usually a straightforward tax question: is an advance of capital to a business debt or equity? But in some cases the question gets harder to answer, mostly because of the tangled multi-factor test we use. Long ago most tax practitioners gave up trying to clean up the process of answering...

Literature provides evidence of profit shifting of MNEs, particularly by intercompany debt. Therefore, we conducted a broad empirical investigation (survey), focusing on specific issues regarding cross-border intra-group financial transactions. This paper aims to work out empirical evidence of...

The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open economy, exploiting three sources of variation in Canadian tax policy: across provinces, industries, and years. Estimates of the UCE with Canadian data are less prone to the...

We investigate the outcome of bilateral tax competition by analyzing Double Tax Treaties (DTT). DTTs are the crucial means of splitting a tax base between two countries. Yet, there are only few empirical results on the textual design of DTTs. We develop a novel approach to quantitatively analyze...