This paper discusses the issue of profit shifting and 'aggressive' tax planning by multinational firms. The paper makes two contributions. First, it provides some background information to the debate by giving a brief overview of existing empirical studies on profit shifting and by describing...

The gaming sector has recently been characterized by a process of liberalization and technological innovation, which has increased the number of available products and operators, thus increasing the degree of market competition. On the fiscal side, the effect of these changes has been the...

The recent economic downturn resulted in firms generating significant tax losses, which they risked losing if they experienced an ownership change. In response, a number of loss firms adopted poison pill plans. We document a significant negative market reaction to the announcement of 62 poison...

A consolidated filing of corporate income tax may induce firms to manipulate ownership interests in subsidiaries but no study has systematically examined such behavioral responses. This paper examines empirically inclusions/exclusions of subsidiaries to/from consolidation groups in a...

Venture capital has become a dominant form of innovation finance, used by many high-tech startups. Europe lags the U.S. in both VC activity and the creation of successful startups, and has recently been surpassed by China. Few European countries have rates of VC activity commensurable to their...

Zur Messung von Effektivsteuerbelastungen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren ein umfassendes Instrumentarium entwickelt, das auf unterschiedlichen Methoden basiert. Der European Tax Analyzer verwendet vollständige Finanzpläne und besitzt insbesondere Stärken durch eine sehr detaillierte...

Für die betriebliche Altersvorsorge stellt die Nullzinspolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank eine große Belastung dar. Unternehmen müssen für Direktzusagen höhere Pensionsrückstellungen aufbauen, um die Altersvorsorgeansprüche ihrer Belegschaft zu erfüllen. Dabei wird der Aufwand...

To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

The present paper pretends to approach the concept of a group of companies in a tax field, paying special attention to the meanings given by the tax legislator in every of the main taxes. This way, the references to the concept of group of companies in the Corporate Income Tax are constant,...