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patents; and (3) how many patents to locate in each country. Our findings indicate that multinationals take the tax … of royalties, R&D incentives, and transfer pricing rules help to explain the patent-location choices of multinationals. …
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National policymakers addressing international corporate taxation must balance a revenue objective with a need to maintain and augment national economic resources and assist the success of national firms. International collaboration after the First World War established a set of principles that...
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This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent and host country statutory corporate tax rates,...
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theory model using data on the universe of German multinationals. The empirical analysis largely supports our model in that …Some multinationals use the parent company as a lender to the group, whereas others set up an internal bank in a low …: (i) smaller firms often rely on parental debt financing; (ii) larger multinationals are more likely to use internal banks …
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The paper considers profit shifting behavior using data on German inbound and outbound FDI. It finds an empirical correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is consistent with profit shifting behavior. For profitable...
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The study analyses the incentives for multinationals caused by linking different national tax systems. The dividend tax … multinationals to park and rotate profits such as realization gains from trade sales of their subsidiaries. The same tools are …
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The study analyses the incentives for multinationals caused by linking different national tax systems. The dividend tax … multinationals to park and rotate profits such as realization gains from trade sales of their subsidiaries. The same tools are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319799
This paper examines the flexibility of multinational firms to use income-shifting strategies within a tax year to react to operating losses. First, we develop an analytical model that considers how affiliate losses can be adjusted by using the transfer prices of tangible and intangible assets,...
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This study develops theory and discusses implications of inflexibility in tax-motivated income shifting. We show that …
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There is a growing concern that governments lose substantial corporate tax revenue because of profit shifting through transfer-pricing and thin-capitalization strategies. Existing literature studies profit shifting and transfer pricing separately. In practice, the choice of debt-to-asset ratios...
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