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This note extends the work by Sørensen (2005) and others by demonstrating why the Norwegian Shareholder Income Tax may be neutral between the two sources of equity funds, i.e. new share issues and retained earnings, despite the fact that the retention of earnings to finance new investment does...
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This paper examines how the distortions caused by dividend taxation depend on whether or not shareholders can recover … their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative assumptions in the … distortive effects of dividend taxation. …
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This paper examines how the effects of dividend taxation on the cost of new equity funds depend on whether or not … shareholders can recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative … that the shareholders cannot recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax …
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This paper explores the taxation of corporations in the wider context of capital income taxation. The pros and cons of various income-based and cash-flow forms of corporation tax (CT) are discussed. The paper concludes that the dual income tax (DIT), which taxes all capital income at the...
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In an article in International Tax and Public Finance, Peter Birch Sørensen (2005) gives an in-depth account of the new Norwegian Shareholder Tax, which allows the shareholders a deduction for an imputed risk-free rate of return. Sørensen’s positive evaluation appears as reasonable for a...
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payout channel and are rather sticky. Choice of payout channel and level of payout are affected by dividend and wage taxation …
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We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis. We use exogenous policy variation for firms with different legal statuses and financial year-end dates to causally identify the...
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This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the “equity trap …. -- dividend taxation ; share repurchases ; equity trap ; cost of capital ; nucleus theory ; growth path …
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This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the equity trap …. -- dividend taxation ; share repurchases ; equity trap ; cost of capital ; nucleus theory ; growth path …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850505
This study presents an improvement of the King-Fullerton framework for calculating the marginal effective tax rate (METR) for active owners of closely held corporations in a dual income tax system with income splitting rules. The original King and Fullerton model was not modeled to incorporate...
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