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Profit shifting by multinational corporations is thought to reduce tax revenue around the world. While transfer pricing … regulations are meant to curtail profit shifting, there have been rising concerns that a sophisticated tax advisory industry can … introduction of standard regulations aimed at limiting profit shifting. Using administrative tax and customs data from Chile in …
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Multinational companies can exploit the tax advantage of debt more aggressively than national companies by shifting debt from affiliates in low tax countries to affiliates in high tax countries. Previous papers have either omitted internal debt or external debt from the analysis. We are the...
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standard tax competition model for capital-enhancing technology, royalty payments, and profit shifting, this paper suggests a …
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analysis, we show that countries with high revenue losses due to profit shifting have lower corporate tax revenues and rates …
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understand the profit-shifting behavior of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and its consequences for real activity. Using new … estimate an unbiased profit-shifting semi-elasticity of about 0.22. Removing incentives to shift profits to particular low …-tax locations leads to profit relocation to ‘next-best’ low-tax countries, allowing firms to circumvent domestic taxation. We do not …
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We develop a positive model of multinational firm behavior and analyze a firm’s incentive to transfer an intellectual property (IP) right of uncertain value offshore ex ante, i.e. before its success or failure is realized. With an asymmetric treatment of losses in the home country, the...
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This paper argues that tax avoidance by large corporations has contributed to the 25% increase in concentration among U.S. firms since the mid-1990s. Corporate tax avoidance gives large firms a competitive edge, which translates into larger market shares and an increase in the granularity of the...
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, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage … inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …
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Almost 140 countries have agreed to reallocate the rights to tax international corporate profits and to introduce minimum tax rates. The agreed plan is the product of pragmatism and a search for consensus, but ambitious. It includes steps towards unitary taxation to be established by a...
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Following Meade (1978), we reconsider issues in the design of taxes on corporate income. We outline developments in economies and in economic thought over the last thirty years, and investigate how these developments should affect the design of taxes on corporate income. We consider a number of...
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