We examine a multinational firm which has a decreasing marginal cost, and the optimal sales tax policies of the regions where that firm operates. We show that the regions set higher sales taxes than those given by a cooperative equilibrium. Each region fails to fully internalize the effects of...

This paper analyzes transfer pricing incentives under a destination-based and an origin-based VAT system. While a switch to the origin-based VAT may moderate or reinforce the incentive for transfer pricing induced by income tax differentials, we show that in the case of the EU this switch tends...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss, den mehrwertsteuerlich (MwSt.-lich) gebundene Kapitalflüsse auf Multinationale Konzerne (MNC) ausüben sowie mit Ansätzen, welche die MwSt.-Kapitalbindungskosten in Logistiknetzwerken Multinationaler Konzerne senken. Die Forschung zu indirekten...

We examine a multinational firm which has a decreasing marginal cost, and the optimal sales tax policies of the regions where that firm operates. We show that the regions set higher sales taxes than those given by a cooperative equilibrium. Each region fails to fully internalize the effects of...