In a coordinated effort to curb tax evasion, governments systematically exchange information about bank accounts with foreign owners. We study the compliance effects of the policy in the context of South Africa using information reports on one million foreign bank accounts linked to income and...

This article examines the doctrinal status and significance of judicial precedent in the EU tax legal order, focusing on its implications for Ukraine's integration. In the absence of full legislative harmonisation in direct taxation, CJEU jurisprudence serves as a primary mechanism for "negative...

Does the preferential tax treatment of debt over equity cause banks to increase their leverage? We construct a novel dataset tracing the evolution of the debt tax shield for banks in advanced economies from 1870 to 2020. Exploiting variation from nearly all changes in banking-sector tax shields...

This project reviews the revenue implications of the introduction of a global implementation of unitary taxation and formula apportionment. The combination of a various sources of firm-level data allows to learn more about the channels and the extent of the reallocation of tax revenues. The...

We provide firm-level evidence on expected tax burdens under the OECD's Pillar Two minimum tax using hand-collected financial statement disclosures from listed multinational groups headquartered in countries where Pillar Two has already taken effect. Our setting exploits a common reporting...