Dual-regime business tax systems typically subject smaller firms to an output (turnover) tax and larger firms to a profit (corporate) tax. Despite their prevalence, there is little formal analysis of their optimal design. This paper addresses this gap by developing a theoretical framework to...

The Taxation Game is a cooperative game played between a set of countries I = {1, . . . , n} admitting the operation of a multinational enterprise (MNE, "the firm" ) within their jurisdiction. The firm, when operating within the territory of a subgroup S ⊆ I of countries (a coalition) will...

Excess profit taxes (EPTs) emerge as an option to contribute to the extra needed revenues, avoiding a general increase in corporate tax rates, while having the prospect to serve as a gateway to converge toward a permanent efficient rent tax instaed of the corporate income tax. General unilateral...

This article aims to analyse possible forms of taxation in the financial sector and, based on financial institutions' data, estimate the potential contribution to the state revenue of the Czech Republic, if the tax is levied on the banks' assets with the progression tax rate. The exponential...

Deutschland ist im internationalen Vergleich ein Hochsteuerland. So liegt die Tarifbelastungdeutscher Kapitalgesellschaften mit etwa 30 % um fast 10 Prozentpunkte oberhalb desEU-Durchschnitts. Teilweise wird vermutet, dass die tatsächliche Steuerbelastung von denUnternehmen aufgrund von...

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...

More than 130 countries have accepted the OECD invitation to reform the taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs). One of two reform pillars aims at granting market countries the right to tax supernormal ("residual") profit without requiring physical nexus. This paper examines the method of...

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987 2013 for...

We study how business taxes affect establishments' R&D activities. Relying on geocoded panel data targeting the universe of R&D-active establishments in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the local business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for identification. Using event study...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected most companies' profits negatively, but other companies did exceptionally well, recording excess profits during the pandemic. In this paper we estimate the scale of these excess profits, their determinants, and the revenue potential of excess profits tax. To...

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...

What happens when sovereign governments coordinate their tax policies? This is an important research topic in government and economics. We focus on implications of re-allocating taxing rights away from source countries (where goods are produced) to market countries (where goods are consumed) and...

Die OECD hat mit ihren Reformvorschlägen zum Zwei-Säulen-Modell für eine neue, vermeintlich gerechtere globale Steuerordnung große Erwartungen geweckt. Ambitioniert sind Zeitplan und Ziele. Noch 2022 soll die gesetzgeberische Umsetzung der Regeln erfolgen, die das internationale Steuerrecht...

Wie kann eine steuerliche Maßnahme zur Förderung von privaten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinvestitionen optimal ausgestaltet werden? Dieser Frage geht die Arbeit aus ökonomischer und rechtlicher Perspektive nach und versucht damit eine ganzheitliche Antwort zu geben. Hierzu werden zunächst...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

Die Rechtsform ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die gesetzliche Handlungssphäre, innerhalb welcher ein Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an rechtlichen Beziehungen im Innen- und Außenverhältnis organisiert. Gleichzeitig steht ihre adäquate Wahl in einem besonderen Verhältnis zur Besteuerung...

Um in Abwesenheit eines Konzernsteuerrechts eine steuersubjektübergreifende Verrechnung von Gewinnen und Verlusten innerhalb eines Konzerns zu gewährleisten, wurde die ertragsteuerliche Organschaft eingeführt. Jedoch liegen die organschaftlichen Tatbestandsvoraussetzungen nicht immer zwischen...

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for...

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for...

What are the macroeconomic implications of re-allocating taxing rights away from source countries (where goods are produced) to market countries (where goods are consumed) and introducing minimum rates in international profit taxation? We assess this question in a dynamic macroeconomic model...

Taxes designed to counter unsustainable behaviours that lead to environmental destruction are usually styled as surtaxes on purchase prices. It makes more sense to locate the source of the profits derived from such behaviours and tax them in order to internalize the environmental costs that are...

How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies suggest large stability gains from eliminating the debt bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio...

The novel coronavirus demands untold amounts of public spending even as it has destroyed untold amounts of economic value, yet the fortunes of some taxpayers will multiply in the process. The authors consider proposals to rebuild revenue coffers using excess profits taxes and argue that, owing...

We study how profit taxation affects plants’ R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987–2013 for...

We study optimal product market interventions in an unequal economy in which firm ownership is concentrated and markups increase with firm market shares. We characterize optimal regulation in a static Mirrleesian setting in which we impose no constraints on the shape of interventions, and take...

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...