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sovereignty in a world of increasing globalization. These OECD/G20 initiatives will provide tax administration and policy …
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While tax havens are known as custodians and intermediaries of assets, this is the first paper to document that havens affect the ownership of assets on a large scale. We investigate cross-border, tax-haven mergers and acquisitions (M&A) using hand-collected data on tax residence laws and a...
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This study was drafted as the EU topical report for IFA's general report on the topic reconstructing the treaty network and deals with the intersection of three areas: i) European Union law; ii) the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project (BEPS) and its implementation, and; iii) member...
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We investigate real investment, financial revenues and profits in formerly domestic firms once they enter a multinational entity (MNE) through an acquisition. We argue that following the acquisition, those targets are tax-optimized in a profit shifting context if they are acquired by MNEs with...
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This paper investigates the effects of double tax treaties (DTTs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) after controlling for their relevance in the presence of treaty shopping. DTTs cannot be considered a bilateral issue, but must be viewed as a network, since FDI can flow from home to host...
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The Unified Approach issued by the OECD Secretariat on Oct 9, 2019, is the OECD's most recent attempt to find international consensus on BEPS Action Item 1, “Taxing the Digital Economy.” Our assessment is that the Pillar One proposals in the Unified Approach suffer from several defects, the...
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Among the ways in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) can shift profits from one jurisdiction to another in order to minimize taxes, one of the most simple and widely-employed involves the payment of interest to related parties and third parties. For these reasons, it is not surprising that...
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The taxation of private equity managers' share of funds' profits — the twenty percent “carried interest” — received much attention in academic literature and popular discourse. Much has been said and written about the fact that fund managers' profits are taxed at preferred rates. But...
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Partnerships are the fastest growing class of business entity in the United States and represent over one third of reported business income, but due to their legal complexity and opaque nature economists have not yet been able to identify where a sizeable portion of this income goes. In this...
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Activists around the world seek to expose a global system that fails to tax multinationals adequately and thus deprives … governments of needed revenues, with profound effects for development in the world's poorest nations. These tax activists have … sparked a global movement, with groups all over the world seeking progress for development in poor countries by demanding …
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