The paper addresses the question of effective tax rates for Russian economic sectors in transition. It presents a detailed account of fiscal environment for 1995 and compares statutory obligations with reported tax liabilities. The paper finds that taxation did not contribute to recession, as...

This article calculates the effective tax rate (ETR) of U.S. corporate multinationals. It takes into account the permanent deferral of corporate taxation of foreign earnings held in controlled foreign corporations designated as permanently reinvested earnings (PRE) and recurring tax holidays...

Tax is an important financial payment made by a person or body of people in the bearing of the spending of public power. Taxes are significant for individuals and the nation at large. The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of the tax rate on taxpayers’ voluntary compliance in...

Effective tax rates (ETRs) estimated from the balance sheet data of multinational corporations (MNCs) are useful for comparing MNCs’ corporate income taxation across countries. In this paper we propose a new methodological approach to estimate ETRs as reliably and as for as many countries as...