Bremus, Franziska; Schmidt, Kirsten; Tonzer, Lena - 2020
on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … incentives of bank levies to reduce leverage turn insignificant. Thus, bank levies can counteract the debt bias of taxation only …