This paper examines the role of personal income taxes in multinationals’ corporate tax–induced profit shifting. As required by corporate tax rules in most countries, firms need economic substance in low–corporate tax countries to justify profit shifting to these countries. Because higher...

Die Zinsschranke gem. § 4h EStG bestimmt das Ausmaß, in dem betrieblich veranlasste Zinsaufwendungen bei der Ermittlung der steuerlichen Bemessungsgrundlagen berücksichtigt werden können. Das Greifen der Vorschrift begrenzt daher die Nutzung des den Zinsaufwendungen inhärenten...

This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of Deutsche Bundesbank’s Foreign Direct Investment data (MiDi)...