Unternehmen der digitalen Wirtschaft wie Google, Facebook, Amazon usw. sind in Europa allgegenwärtig, zahlen aber nur wenig Steuern. Die Finanzminister einiger wichtiger EUMitgliedstaaten haben deshalb eine umsatzbasierte Ausgleichsteuer auf Internetunternehmen vorgeschlagen. Ein solches...

The Republican majority in the US House of Representatives is considering the introduction of a destination based cash flow tax (DBCFT). A unilateral introduction of such a tax system raises a range of questions due to the co-existence with source based taxation systems abroad; moreover, it might...

We analyze the unilateral introduction of a destination-based corporate cash-flow tax system (DBT), as recently proposed by Auerbach and Devereux (AEJ Policy 2018). We show that, first, the DBT rate is decision-neutral only if the source-tax country makes the DBT payments deductible from its tax...

The ongoing digitalisation of the economy challenges the international tax system. Specifically, the current rules of source taxation do not fully reflect the paradigm of taxing where value is created. In digital business models, firms often do not need a physical presence to be economically...

Acccording to the OECD and the EU Commission, profits should be taxed "where value is created”. A commonly accepted definition of the term “value creation” is so far lacking, though. In this paper, we offer a pragmatic and contextualised analysis of the new “value creation” paradigm...