This paper considers the relationship between two general neutral business tax structures, which we label the Ѧirm tax' and the ѳhareholder taxҮ The well-known R-based and S-based cash flow taxes, analysed by Meade (1978), are special cases of these two taxes. We demonstrate the...

Double taxation of company dividends is reduced in the UK by a partial imputation system of corporation tax, which was introduced in 1973. Payments of advance corporation tax (ACT) charged on dividend distributions can normally be offset against the firm's corporation tax liability. However, for...

In this paper we consider estimation of the autoregressive error components model. When the autoregressive parameter is moderately large and the number of time series observations is moderately small, the usual Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) estimator obtained after first differencing has...

This paper investigates whether the impact of financing constraints on company investment spending differs between firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK. Many previous studies have found that investment spending displays "excess sensitivity to cash flow" for individual countries, and...

Corporation tax in the UK is based on an estimate of historic cost company profits. The present system was introduced in the 1984 Budget and has been in full effect since the end of the transitional period in 1986. The consequences of inflation in combination with this tax base were well known...

There has much recent academic and policy interest in the issue of spatial clustering of economic activity, with most attention paid to the geographic concentration of high-tech industries. This paper describes patterns of geographic and industrial concentration in UK production industries at...