Overseas dividend remittance is an important vehicle for multinational corporations (MNCs) to move funds among their global subsidiaries. Concerns that residence-based (e.g., U.S.) and territorial (e.g., European countries) tax systems distort dividend repatriations decisions have led countries...

The importance of state and local tax planning -- Constitutional law limitations -- Corporate income/franchise taxes -- Sales and use taxes -- Property taxes -- Unemployment taxes -- Mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring -- Credits and incentives -- Taxation of electronic commerce -- Income...

This study examines the role of managers’ political campaign contributions in relation to their firms’ tax benefits. The study differs from extant public choice literature that has not examined the role of self-interested agents within the firm. Using a major tax law change, we find that...

Organizations under public ownership have earned the dubious distinction that nonperformance is the hallmark of public ownership and even any improvement can at best be only ephemeral. Several agencies based and democracy based theories have explained why they cannot perform. But no study has...

This paper investigates whether an increase in the R&D tax credit rate stimulates firms’ incremental R&D spending, and whether firms plan their R&D spending to take advantage of additional tax credits for incremental R&D spending. We find that the increase in the credit rate has a positive...

This study examines how variations in states’ corporate income tax regimes affect new capital investment by business. Using U.S. state-aggregated data from 1983 to 1996, we find in pooled and fixed-effects regressions that new capital expenditures by corporations in the manufacturing sector...