The literature testing for aggregate impacts of taxes on long-run growth rates in the OECD has generally used tax rate measures constructed from macroeconomic aggregates such as tax revenues. These have a number of advantages but two major disadvantages: they are typically average, rather than...

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...

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 planning with intangibles has become one of the most popular and most vividly debated topics in international taxation. We incorporate various intellectual property (IP) tax planning models into forward-looking measures of effective tax rates, namely the disposal of intangibles to low-tax...