This paper examines the role of personal income taxes in multinationals’ corporate tax–induced profit shifting. As required by corporate tax rules in most countries, firms need economic substance in low–corporate tax countries to justify profit shifting to these countries. Because higher...

This paper examines the response of private firms and their shareholders to a dividend tax increase, which affects only a small group of shareholders. Using an exogenous shock in Germany, my results suggest that firms do not adjust their payout policy but corporate minority shareholders, the...

In dieser Arbeit werden die realen Effekte von Steuerreformen untersucht. Die Politik nutzt häufig Steuerreformen, um realwirtschaftliche Entscheidungen von Unternehmen, wie zum Beispiel Investitionsentscheidungen, zu beeinflussen. Die zugrundeliegende Annahme ist, dass der Besteuerung eine...

This paper studies the cross-base tax elasticity of capital gains realizations to labor income taxes when capital gains are taxed at a separate proportional tax rate. Using a longitudinal panel of over 265,000 individuals in Sweden, this paper shows in a regression kink design that labor income...