When companies finance their investment via the international markets for stocks and bonds, relief from domestic personal taxes on dividends and capital gains will not reduce the cost of capital. Some authors have shown that even for small domestic companies whose shares are not traded...

This paper addresses the tax treatment of EU inbound dividends in the EU Member States where the corporate (rather that individual) shareholders are resident, that is dividends paid by a company that is resident in a EU Member State to a corporate recipient shareholder that is resident in a EU...