We exploit the 2017 US tax reform to learn about the tax-competitiveness of US multinational corporations (MNCs) relative to their international peers. Matching on the propensity score, we compare pairs of similar US and European firms listed on the S&P500 or StoxxEurope600 in a...

Harmonisierung der heterogenen Unternehmensteuern in Europa? Der vorliegende Pforzheimer Beitrag möchte für Europa einen Mittelweg der Harmonisierung der Besteuerung von Unternehmensgewinnen aufzeigen. Es geht um eine gemeinsame körperschaftsteuerliche Bemessungsgrundlage und ihre steuer- und...

This paper discusses the issue of profit shifting and “aggressive” tax planning by multinational firms. The paper makes two contributions. First, it provides some background information to the debate by giving a brief overview of existing empirical studies on profit shifting and by...

Harmonisierung der heterogenen Unternehmensteuern in Europa? Der vorliegende Pforzheimer Beitrag möchte für Europa einen Mittelweg der Harmonisierung der Besteuerung von Unternehmensgewinnen aufzeigen. Es geht um eine gemeinsame körperschaftsteuerliche Bemessungsgrundlage und ihre steuer- und...

The aim of this paper is to assess the feasibility to introduce the OECD-BEPS measures to deal with aggressive tax planning in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa. The BEPS and its Action Plan have been developed by the OECD following the G20 mandate and it provides new international tax...

Taxpayers who hide assets abroad to evade taxes present a serious enforcement challenge for the United States. In response, the United States has developed a family of initiatives that punish and rehabilitate non-compliant taxpayers, raise revenues, and require widespread reporting of offshore...

Each year, the government loses hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue due to underreporting by individual taxpayers. According to standard deterrence theory, policymakers should be able to reduce tax evasion by increasing tax penalties, raising the audit rate, or some combination of the...

This paper argues that there is too great a reliance placed on anti-avoidance provisions, discretions reposed in the revenue, and judicially developed doctrines as a means of countering tax avoidance. In view of the difficulties in defining and countering tax avoidance, it is suggested that...

Every spring, the federal government appears to deliver an abundance of announcements that describe criminal convictions and civil injunctions involving taxpayers who have been accused of committing tax fraud. Commentators have occasionally suggested that the government announces a large number...

This paper discusses the issue of profit shifting and ‘aggressive’ tax planning by multinational firms. The paper makes two contributions. Firstly, we provide some background information to the debate by giving a brief overview over existing empirical studies on profit shifting and by...