In der Arbeit wird untersucht, ob Steuern die räumliche Allokation von Kapital beeinflussen. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse belegen, daß die beobachtbare internationale Steuer-Standort-Konkurrenz um grenzüberschreitende Investitionen und Investoren theoretisch und empirisch nicht begründet...

I provide evidence on the group structures of multinationals and analyze to what extent these structures are tax efficient. While the corporate income tax can hardly be avoided if a subsidiary is active in a country, withholding taxes depend on the structure in which the subsidiary is embedded....

"The Fund Reporting Cloud® has made tax reporting less complex, but comparing the effective tax treatment of investment funds and their investors in an international environment is still an ambitious task. Against this background, this study examines the tax consequences at fund, asset, and...

Income tax systems are multi-dimensional, and ignoring their non-rate aspects can introduce bias into cross-country empirical estimation of the impact of taxation. We analyze 10 non-rate tax system aspects, codified based on recent OECD reports. We find that a single factor (which we call...