This paper proposes an analysis of two major tax events which occurred in the European Union in 2001, the move of Germany from imputation to exemption and the objective announced by the EU Commission to provide EU businesses with a consolidated corporate tax base for their EU-wide activities. In...

Ongoing tax reform processes, competitive pressures and the consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis have considerably shaped the tax systems of the Member States of the European Union in the last two decades. Our paper combines a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the...

Die fehlende Harmonisierung der Körperschaftsbesteuerung in Europa führt zu einer Verzerrung von Standort-, Investitions- und Finanzierungsentscheidungen multinationaler Konzerne. Für die Steuerverwaltungen begründet das Nebeneinander von 27 separaten Steuersystemen die zunehmende...

The reform proposal of the European Commission for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, the so-called CCCTB, is expected to significantly reduce the cost of doing business by lowering tax compliance costs for cross border operations within the European Union. However, to date the scarcity...