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...

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...

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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...

Vorliegende Abhandlung widmet sich der Einflussnahme, welche der Europäische Gerichtshof durch Auslegung des primären und sekundären Unionsrechts auf die Effizienz der ertragsteuerlichen Behandlung grenzüberschreitender Investitionen am Binnenmarkt nimmt. In ihrer Ausgangslage steht der...

This paper measures the effective taxation of housing investments in 40 OECD member and partner countries. The paper derives both Marginal Effective Tax Rates (METRs) and Average Effective Tax Rates (AETRs), which incorporate the stream of income and taxes over the life of the housing...

Investitionen in Form von Unternehmensakquisitionen haben für die durchführenden Unternehmen eine große strategische und finanzielle Bedeutung. Auch für den Verkäufer stellt der Verkauf des Unternehmens eine bedeutende Vermögensumschichtung dar, die ihm eine Änderung seiner Kapital- und...

Consider a simple general equilibrium economy with one representative consumer, a single competitive firm and the government. Suppose that the government has to finance public expenditures using linear consumption taxes and/or a lump-sum tax on profits redistributed to the consumer. We show...

We develop a partial equilibrium model in which firms can locate in two separate regions. A firm's decision where to locate in a given period depends on the regions' relative profitability. If firms react strongly to the regions' relative profitability, their market switching behavior generates...

To invest successfully it is critical to take the taxation of the investment of the investor into consideration. The following document is about the economic basics of an investment and the ascertainment of the advantages of the investment under the conditions of the complete and incomplete...

Tax treaties that have been concluded by common law countries follow the basic structure, concepts, and language of model tax conventions that were promulgated by the OECD in 1963 and 1977. Thus, clauses from most treaties concluded by most common law countries are equally suitable as...