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Bargaining power may explain the tax differences between multinational and national enterprises beyond MNEs' profit shifting. Larger firms (mostly MNEs) are more valuable for tax authorities for various reasons. In threatening relocation, larger firms extract greater deductions, resulting in a...
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This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...
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We investigate competition for FDI within a region when a foreign multinational firm can profitably exploit differences in statutory corporate tax rates by shifting taxable profits to lower-tax jurisdictions. In such framework we show that targeted tax competition may lead to higher welfare for...
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This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general … equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent …. We account for their differential impact under alternative methods of double taxation relief (i.e., credit, exemption …
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This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax … investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to …
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This paper examines the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in producer services. We develop a model of FDI in these services and test its predictions using panel data on U.S.FDI in 25 host countries from 1976 to 1995. We find evidence that, in addition to governmental and cultural...
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This paper examines the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in producer services. We develop a model of FDI in these services and test its predictions using panel data on U.S.FDI in 25 host countries from 1976 to 1995. We find evidence that, in addition to governmental and cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320742
This paper investigates multinational enterprises' (MNEs) response to a unique window of opportunity for temporarily unrestricted profit shifting. The window unexpectedly opened because of a ruling by the European Court of Justice in 2006 that suspended the application of controlled foreign...
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Theory recommends aligning the tax treatment of debt and equity. A few countries, notably Belgium, have introduced an allowance for corporate equity (ACE) to achieve tax neutrality. We study the effects of adopting an ACE on debt financing, passive investment, and active investment of...
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to corporate taxation. In particular, we discuss how to classify investment as non-related, horizontal, vertical and … this, we examine the effects of host-country corporate taxation on the volume of investment within related firms (i.e., the … stronger to corporate taxation whereas horizontal investments are less responsive, though, significant negative tax semi …
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