We investigate whether aggressive tax planning firms have a less transparent information environment. Although tax planning provides expected tax savings, it can simultaneously increase the financial complexity of the organization. And, to the extent that this greater financial complexity cannot...

Corporate tax systems generally maintain a sharp distinction between debt and equity, however, the advent of hybrid instruments has transformed the universe of financial instruments into a debt-equity continuum and tax systems therefore need to draw lines that distinguish the set of debt...

This paper studies corporate tax competition if it is costly to learn some of the elements that determine the effective tax burden. Search cost may, but need not, eliminate the tax competition pressure. The outcome depends on the boundaries of tax rate and tax base choices. Search cost can...

Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Size of Corporate Tax Losses -- Policy Issues in the Tax Treatment of Losses -- Country Rules on Corporate Tax Losses -- Schemes Involving Tax Losses -- Strategies for Detecting Schemes Involving Tax Losses -- Strategies for...

"News--or foresight--about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading...

Das deutsche Steuerrecht gewährt den Landwirten durch die Abgrenzung der Einkünfte aus Land- und Forstwirtschaft von den übrigen sechs Einkunftsarten steuerliche Vergünstigungen. Als Abgrenzungskriterium zwischen landwirtschaftlicher und gewerblicher Tierhaltung dient das Verhältnis aus der...