The effective corporate tax rate is a critical measure reflecting a nation's fiscal policy and its attractiveness to foreign investment. This study investigates the relationship between macroeconomic determinants and effective corporate tax rates, focusing on Slovakia's competitiveness within...

This Perspective discusses the fiscal and economic impacts of the global minimum tax; currently being implemented by many countries around the world. The global minimum tax is expected to raise tax revenues, reduce profit-shifting, and allow jurisdictions to strike a better balance between...

This paper documents new facts on corporate taxation and the revenue potential of corporate minimum taxes, leveraging firm-level tax returns from 16 countries. First, effective tax rates follow a humped-shaped pattern with firm size: small firms benefit from reduced rates, while large firms take...

The conventional wisdom is that a big jurisdiction sets a higher tax rate than a small jurisdiction. We show this result arises due to simplifying assumptions that imply tax-base sensitivities are equal across jurisdictions. When more than two jurisdictions compete in commodity taxes, tax-base...