We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage ofcorporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for theperiod 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany.The financial...

From a tax planner’s point of view, it is often attractive to choose debt over equity finan-cing. As this has led to an increase of debt financing of corporations, many countries haveintroduced thin capitalization rules to secure their tax revenues. We analyze the influenceof section 8a of the...

This paper provides a model-based analysis of special tax rules for corporations that invest in stocks of other corporations. To avoid double taxation the returns from such stock investments (dividends and capital gains) are usually tax-exempted or taxed at a reduced tax rate. This allows for...