In the last decades, VAT/GST systems have proliferated across the globe and have usually replaced any eventual cumulative turnover taxes or retail sales taxes (RST) previously operated in the respective country of adoption. However, the input VAT credit inherent to a VAT/GST facilitates some...

This paper studies foreseeable effects that a relatively comprehensive implementation of the Pillar 2 GloBE international effective minimum tax would have on international tax competition for investment. The discussion focuses on the perspective of countries that seek to attract foreign direct...

Dividend taxation is one of the areas of direct taxation in which the European Court's fundamental freedom scrutiny has had the most significant impact on Member States' tax systems. Two key judgements are routinely identified as the landmark decisions that led to this development and that were...

If conventional instruments of strategic trade policy are unavailable, the system of foreign profit taxation and transfer price guidelines may serve as surrogate policy instruments. In this paper, I consider a model where firms from two countries compete with each other on a third market. I...

Recent empirical studies find that foreign direct investment (FDI) by a multinational firm is not associated with a reduction of the firm's domestic activities. As it is often argued, this finding may imply that a country should not tax the firm's foreign profit income since this reduces foreign...