The internationalisation of financial accounting and the European Commission's ambition to harmonise corporate taxation have raised the question whether IFRS accounts could be used for tax purposes. In order to quantify the effect of an IFRS-based taxation on corporate tax burdens in different...

Obwohl steuerliche Wertansätze für ökonomische Entscheidungen eines breiten Adressatenkreises bedeutsam sein können, sind sie für externe Bilanzadressaten weitgehend unbekannt. So wäre beispielsweise im Bereich der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre die Durchführung empirischer Studien...

Although tax values of corporate assets and liabilities can be relevant for economic decisions, they are typically unknown to financial statement users. Tax values permit to conduct empirical studies about exercise of IFRS and tax options. Furthermore, the level of tax loss carryforwards and tax...

This paper deals with the effects of tax rate uncertaity on risk-neutral and risk-averse investment behavior. We analyse effects of stochastic tax rates on both real and financial investment. It emerges that under risk neutrality as well as under risk aversion, increased tax rate uncertainty has...

This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and cross-border investment decisions. Investment can be realized in the investor's domestic business, in a foreign branch or in a foreign subsidiary. The relative impact on the optimal real investment alternative...