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This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios. Under separate accounting, multinationals shift debt from low-tax to high-tax countries. The Nash equilibrium of...
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Switzerland is a prime location for both domestically owned as well as foreign-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs). In this paper, we review the literature on MNE activity with respect to its main fundamental (non-policy) drivers, the non-fiscal consequences of MNEs for various economic...
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Eine höhere Besteuerung der Reichen kann nur dann Ungleichheit begrenzen, wenn sie konsequent durchgesetzt wird. Deshalb beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit der internationalen Kooperation gegen Steuerflucht. Es wird erörtert, welche Formen von Steuerflucht, -vermeidung und -wettbewerb es...
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Governments use tax expenditures to boost investment, innovation and employment. However, these schemes are largely opaque, costly and often ineffective in reaching their stated goals. They also frequently trigger unwanted side effects. In order to improve the performance of these tools, the...
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We set up a simple model of tax competition for mobile, highly-skilled and overconfident managers. Firms endogenously choose the compensation scheme for managers, which consists of a fixed wage and a bonus payment in the high state. Managers are overconfident about the probability of the high...
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We investigate whether controlled foreign corporation (CFC) rules influence cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity on a global scale. CFC rules are one main anti-tax avoidance measure and potentially lead to immediate taxation of foreign subsidiaries' income at parent level....
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Die Steuerreform 2000 brachte in Österreich auch Neuerungen im Bereich der Unternehmensbesteuerung. Aus steuersystematischer Sicht ist insbesondere die Einführung der Zinsbereinigung des Eigenkapitalzuwachses zu erwähnen. Ausgehend von einer Bestandsaufnahme zur gegenwärtigen...
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Im Jahr 2012 erfolgte die radikalste Gewerbesteuersenkung einer Kommune in Nordrhein-Westfalen seit Jahrzehnten: Die Stadt Monheim am Rhein reduzierte den Hebesatz der Gewerbesteuer um insgesamt mehr als ein Drittel. Dies brachte der Stadt den Vorwurf ein, den Steuerwettbewerb deutlich...
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This paper shows that OECD’s Pillar Two may increase employment and investment in low-tax countries due to the Substance-based Income Exclusion (SBIE). The SBIE allows to tax-deduct payroll costs and user costs of tangible assets twice from the tax base of the top-up tax owed by subsidiaries...
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