When a group of affiliated corporations have the option to file a single tax return based on a combined income, what types of groups would take up the option? This study empirically analyses decisions to participate in a single-jurisdiction consolidated tax filing. The data consists of 2,782...

The ownership nationality of large US multinational companies plays an implicit but important role in the current debate over how such companies should be taxed. This paper identifies that role and investigates what is actually known about where these companies’ shareholders reside.

The present paper is an empirical study, the goal of which is to determine the strength of various arguments that have been used to justify tax evasion and to determine whether results differ based on certain demographic variables. A survey instrument was constructed using a seven-point Likert...

This case was an adapted version of a tax case heard in U.S. Federal District Court and the US Court of Appeals. The case involved a partnership set-up by a large US corporation with its own subsidiaries as managing partners and foreign partners as outside investors. The formation of the...

This paper considers possible tax implications of the merger between a wholly-owned subsidiary of Domestic Co, Inc. and International Co, Ltd, which took place on November 10, 2008. Even though the merger is structured in a way that it will most likely be respected as a tax-free reorganization...

To our knowledge, this paper provides the most comprehensive analysis of firm-level corporate income taxes to date. We use publicly available financial statement information for 11,602 public corporations from 82 countries from 1988 to 2009 to estimate country-level effective tax rates (ETRs)....

This article seeks to debate from a critical perspective the opportunity and legality of introducing the minimum tax system introduced in Romania by the Emergency Ordinance on the budget rectification for the year 2009 and the regulation of some financial and fiscal measures.

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share...

The German corporate tax reform of 2008 has brought about important cuts in corporate tax rates, which were at the same time accompanied by significant changes in the determination of the tax base for both major German corporate taxes - corporate income tax and trade tax. The reform followed the...

Over three-quarters of US taxpayers receive income tax refunds, indicating tax prepayments above the level of tax liability. This amounts to a zero interest loan to the government. Previous studies have suggested two main explanations for this behavior: precautionary behavior in light of tax...