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In this study, we use advance tax rulings (ATR) to investigate the impact of fee-based tax certainty on risky investment decisions of a firm under both cash flow and tax uncertainty. We model and analyze the multi-dimensional nature of tax uncertainty from tax reforms and tax audits in expected...
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We show that the manager of a sufficiently undervalued firm is incentivized to allocate financial slack for a share repurchase to gain an immediate, risk free, and corporate tax free wealth transfer from uninformed shareholders, instead of undertaking a real investment with long term, risky, and...
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This paper looks into the investment behavior of multinational firms with respect to their locked-out foreign earnings. The focus is on multinational firms subject to credit and deferral home-country taxation such as that of the United States. “Locked-out earnings” refers to the earnings of...
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This paper aims to analyze the impact of applying for an advance tax ruling and of examining complex tax issues with the help of an external consultant, on the investor's decision to invest when the environment is uncertain. Using decision theory, we first determine the maximum fee an investor...
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In this paper, we present a review of tax research. We survey four main areas of the literature: 1) the informational role of income tax expense reported for financial accounting, 2) corporate tax avoidance, 3) corporate decision-making including investment, capital structure, and organizational...
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Tax incentives are a key component of governments’ investment policy mix as they directly impact companies’ tax burden. In this paper, we illustrate the EU’s tax attractiveness as investment location over time in terms of effective average tax rates and evaluate potential tax reform...
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Mit der österreichischen Steuerreform 2005 wurde die Möglichkeit der grenzüberschreitenden Verlustverrechnung im Rahmen der Gruppenbesteuerung eröþnet. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den simultanen Einfluss von Gruppenbesteuerung und Verlustverrechnungsbeschränkungen auf das...
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Mit der österreichischen Steuerreform 2005 wurde die Möglichkeit der grenzüberschreitenden Verlustverrechnung im Rahmen der Gruppenbesteuerung eröþnet. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den simultanen Einfluss von Gruppenbesteuerung und Verlustverrechnungsbeschränkungen auf das...
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Standard models of investment usually incorporate various tax factors but often overlook "tax exhaustion," the case when a firm has negative taxable income and cannot claim immediately its tax deductions or credits. However, tax exhausted firms face a higher cost of capital, and evidence shows...
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