The Taiwanese government offers firms that invest in qualified projects in emerging high-tech industries two mutually exclusive tax incentives—a corporate 5-year tax exemption or shareholder investment tax credits. This study examines whether corporate managers take shareholder tax benefits...

Research has documented the stimulating effect of R&D tax credits on R&D expenditure when enacting an R&D tax credit or raising the credit rate. However, the potential adverse effects and consequences of reducing R&D tax incentives remain unexamined. Using a cut in R&D tax incentives in Taiwan,...

The Taiwanese government offers firms that invest in qualified projects in emerging high-tech industries two mutually exclusive tax incentives-a corporate 5-year tax exemption or shareholder investment tax credits. This study examines whether corporate managers take shareholder tax benefits into...

Imputation systems integrate corporate and shareholder personal income taxes to alleviate double taxation of dividend income. In this study, we empirically examine whether a corporate tax rate reduction under an imputation tax system benefits shareholders. Using Taiwan as a setting, our analyses...

By conducting indepth interviews with CEO and top management of TTY Biopharm Company, a Taiwan-based pharmaceutical company, I depict the role of TTY's intellectual capital in building competitive advantages and enhancing the achievement of corporate strategies. TTY's success illustrates that...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the value creation efficiency and firms' market valuation as well as financial performance, using data drawn from Taiwanese listed companies. Our results support the proposition that intellectual capital has a positive impact...

Research has documented the stimulating effect of R&D tax credits on R&D expenditure when enacting an R&D tax credit or raising the credit rate. However, the potential adverse effects and consequences of reducing R&D tax incentives remain unexamined. Using a cut in R&D tax incentives in Taiwan,...

Overseas dividend remittance is an important vehicle for multinational corporations (MNCs) to move funds among their global subsidiaries. Concerns that residence-based (e.g., U.S.) and territorial (e.g., European countries) tax systems distort dividend repatriations decisions have led countries...

This paper investigates whether an increase in the R&D tax credit rate stimulates firms’ incremental R&D spending, and whether firms plan their R&D spending to take advantage of additional tax credits for incremental R&D spending. We find that the increase in the credit rate has a positive...