Tax avoidance is considered as old as taxation itself, and is traditionally viewed as being in the interest of shareholders since its aim is to reduce the firm’s cost structure. However, researchers have empirically found that corporate tax avoidance does not necessarily increase firm value as...

The main goal of this article is to find the relationship between public fiscal policy and economic growth. The article consist of a few parts. The first is an introduction, which creates the background for the analysis in the following sections. It shows the main point of view on public fiscal...

Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...

The present publication is concerned with the process of thin capitalisation in the countries of OECD. Two methods for financing companies are discerned in relation to this phenomenon, i.e. debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences of the method of equity financing of companies are...

The following paper explores the issue of thin capitalisation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. There are two methods used by financing companies that are strongly related to this phenomenon: debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences...

This paper provides a model-based analysis of special tax rules for corporations that invest in stocks of other corporations. To avoid double taxation the returns from such stock investments (dividends and capital gains) are usually tax-exempted or taxed at a reduced tax rate. This allows for...