Although the hope may be to reduce economic distortions in captial markets, the primary focus of corporate tax consolidation among member states of a federation is to reduce compliance and administrative burdens. For example, the Canadian provinces have sufficient flexibility to determine their...

Jack Mintz, University of Calgary, gibt einen Überblick über die Auswirkungen der US-amerikanischen Steuerreform und zeigt, dass sowohl die Investitionen als auch die Finanzierung von US-amerikanischen und ausländischen Unternehmen davon beeinflusst werden.

Two different forms of regional conflict occur in a federation: conflict of taste and conflict of claim. These conflicts may support each other but not necessarily – they are independent in concept and have different implications for regional tensions. Conflict of taste arises from differences...

This paper discusses the influence of Canadian corporate tax rates on the debt-asset ratios of Canadian firms, 1970-82. Five theoretical models are reviewed and used to construct a linear encompassing model of financial structure. Empirical evidence from Canadian firms from COMPUSTAT files...

This paper analyzes corporate and personal income taxes and inflation on the cost of investing in depreciable and inventory capital in Canada in 1963-78. Changes in rates of inflation and corporate tax rates theoretically have an ambiguous effect on the cost of capital. Tax depreciation and FIFO...

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This paper characterizes the outcome of tax competition between autonomous fiscal authorities. It treats the case of a two-region economy, where an origin-based commodity tax is levied by each region on a private good to finance a local public good. A second private good is untaxed. We describe...