This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation of foreign interest payments received by individuals in accordance with the rules of their State of residence. The data suggest that the Directive, which is based on automatic...

This paper examines whether the profit-shifting trend in Europe during 2003–2013 can be explained by tax policy changes. Consistent with prior literature, we find that affiliates' profits are sensitive to tax rate changes. However, we document that tax base–broadening reforms have mitigated...

Die Europäische Kommission hat vorgeschlagen, das Vorsteuervergütungsverfahren zu ändern. Derzeit erfolgt die Vorsteuervergütung an nicht im Inland, sondern in einem anderen EU-Mitgliedstaat ansässige Unternehmen in Form von Erstattungen auf Antrag durch eine zentrale Behörde im Land der...

Tax competition arguments suggest that governements that operate in an open economy (such as local governments) should not and will not rely on non-benefit taxes, such as the income tax. Yet we observe reliance on income taxes by local governments in many countries, and such reliance changes...

At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the 15 member nations. The opponents of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and excise tax revenue of individual countries. In their opinion,...