This study investigates how strategic tax transfer pricing of a multinational company (MNC) and two tax authorities in different countries affects production and tax avoidance decisions at the firm level and tax revenues at the country level. We employ a game-theoretical model to analyze the...

This study investigates the contagious nature of tax avoidance by examining how narratives affect tax avoiding behavior. We adapt the idea of narrative economics indicating that individuals' actions are stimulated by stories that spread within a society. We employ two types of infection models...

In the field of mergers and acquisitions, German and international tax law allow for several opportunities to step up a firm's assets, i.e., to revaluate the assets at fair market values. When a step-up is performed the taxpayer recognizes a taxable gain, but also obtains tax benefits in the...

Tax uncertainty often negatively affects investment. Advance tax rulings (ATRs) are commonly used as a measure to provide tax certainty. Rulings are currently controversially discussed in the context of tax planning activities of multinational firms (Luxembourg Leaks). We analyze ATRs as tax...

Vor mehr als einer Dekade hat das Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer beschlossen, bei einerUnternehmensbewertung die Einbeziehung von Ertragsteuern grundsätzlich zuempfehlen.1 Seitdem hat die Diskussion über den Einfluss einer Besteuerung der Anteilseignerauf den Marktwert eines Unternehmens...

In der Literatur ist seit langem bekannt, wie man Ertragsteuern in die Unternehmensbewertung einzubeziehen hat. In dieser Arbeit klären wir, wie man ein Unternehmen bewertet, dessen Eigentümer eine Erbschaftund Schenkungsteuer zu leisten haben.