scholarly journals Corporate taxes and the location of FDI in Europe: The importance of economic integration and project characteristics

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (217) ◽  
pp. 39-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Silva ◽  
Sérgio Lagoa
Keyword(s):  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Monetary Integration ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Corporate Taxes ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Project Characteristics ◽  
The Impact

European countries face ever-increasing competition for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This paper studies how corporate taxes affect the location of FDI in Europe. Using firm-level data, we start by analysing the impact of the level and volatility of three tax rates on FDI: effective, statutory, and marginal tax rates. Next, we investigate how economic and monetary integration influences the effect of taxes on FDI. Finally, we focus on how the impact of taxes varies by project characteristics and sector: expansion versus new investment, industry versus services, high-tech versus low-tech manufacturing industries, and high versus low capital intensity firms. We conclude that stable taxes play a significant role in attracting FDI and, most importantly, that lowering taxes fosters FDI especially when the country has a high tax rate or is outside the euro area. There are some nuances in this relationship that are relevant to policymakers. Tax cuts are particularly important in stimulating foreign firms already in situ to expand their activities and in attracting industrial businesses. Finally, capital-intensive projects are less sensitive to taxes, but high-tech manufacturing projects have the same reaction to tax rates as other manufacturing projects.

Is a Corruption Crackdown Really Good for the Economy? Firm-Level Evidence from China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Chen ◽  
Xin Jin ◽  
Xu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Government ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study the impact of anticorruption efforts on firm performance, exploiting an unanticipated corruption crackdown in China’s Heilongjiang province in 2004. We compare firms in the affected regions with those in other inland regions before and after the crackdown. Our main finding is an overall negative impact of the crackdown on firm productivity and entry rates. Furthermore, these negative impacts are mainly experienced by private and foreign firms, while state-owned firms are mostly unaffected. We present evidence concerning two potential explanations for our findings. First, the corruption crackdown may have limited bribery opportunities that helped private firms operate. Second, the corruption crackdown may have interfered with personal connections between private firms and government officials to a greater extent than institutional connections between state-owned firms and the government. Overall, our findings suggest that corruption crackdowns may not restore efficiency in the economy, but instead lead to worse economic outcomes, at least in the short run (JEL L2, M1, O1).

scholarly journals Earnings Management, Effective Tax Rate (ETR) and Book-Tax Gap (BTG)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Jasrial Jasrial ◽  
Susy Puspitasari ◽  
Ali Muktiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Behavior Management ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Capital Intensity ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Gap

Objective - This research examines the effect of company size, changes in out-cash flow, return on assets, conservatism, and profit levelling on earnings management. Methodology/Technique - The results of this research show that banking capital structure, capital intensity, intensity of inventory, and intensity of R & D have a significant impact on effective tax rates. Further, the results also show that, with respect to the non-banking sector, R & D expenditure contributes significantly to effective tax rates. Simultaneously, earnings management and effective tax rates, as well as other factors, also have an effect on book tax gap. Findings - This study shows that profit management has a significantly positive effect on book tax gap, and effective tax rates has a significant negative effects o book tax gap. In terms of the non-banking sector, earnings management and effective tax rate have no effect on book tax gap. Deferred tax expenses have a lower capability to detect earnings management than accrual, in both the banking and non-banking sector. Novelty - The study of management capabilities optimizes the role of book tax gap and effective tax rate for earning management. Both tax management and earnings management are closely related to behavior management in managing a company based on the agency theory. Furthermore, the study identifies a relationship between earnings management and book tax gap. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Book Tax Gap; Effective Tax Rate; Earnings Management; Accrual Total; Indonesia. JEL Classification: H26, H29.

scholarly journals Examining the Impact of PP 23/2018 policy through the Tax Compliance Factor of Tanah Abang Traders

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Wardinto P ◽  
Gunadi .
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Group Influence ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to examine the factors that can affect tax compliance at Tanah Abang Market traders, which are the tax rate, perceived opportunity to evade, legal certainty, and group influence. This study uses a quantitative method with a positivism approach which examines social phenomena and captures the perceptions of MSEs actors on the determinants of tax compliance. The sample in this study were 154 MSEs respondents in Tanah Abang Market that were scope into Central Jakarta Regional Tax Office, both private individuals and corporate taxpayers. The results of the study revealed that the tax rate, perceived opportunity to evade, legal certainty, and group influence have a positive effect on tax compliance at Tanah Abang Market traders, but not significant only in the tax rate variable. This is very useful for the DGT authority and the Fiscal Policy Agency as policymakers that the reduction in tax rates does not affect the compliance behavior of MSEs traders and increase monitoring of compliance with MSEs taxpayers through derivative regulations on the implementation of supervision of MSEs taxpayers. 

scholarly journals How leverage can improve performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01031
Author(s):  
Miroslav Kmeťko ◽  
Eduard Hyránek
Keyword(s):  
Risk Premium ◽  
Expected Returns ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Equity Ratio ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Managed Portfolios ◽  
The Impact

One of the best-known Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAP/M) provides us with a methodology for measuring the relationship between the risk premium and the impact of leverage on expected returns. However, this model is not used only to value the cost of capital but also to evaluate the performance of managed portfolios. We will test how the expected return changes in percent by changing the debt-equity ratio and the tax rate based on following assumptions: market return 7%, risk-free rate of return 1% and beta 1.2. These assumptions will be constant and we will change the debt-equity ratio and tax rate. Based on these results, it is clear that the change in profitability varies, in relation to the change of the DE ratio by one tenth. As for changes I n tax rates, changes in expected profitability are not entirely in direct proportion to these changes.

Implicit Corporate Taxes and Income Shifting

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin S. Markle ◽  
Lillian F. Mills ◽  
Braden Williams
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Income Shifting ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Closed Economies ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Tax Effects ◽  
Robust Evidence

ABSTRACT The effects of tax rate changes on corporate profitability are not fully understood. Implicit tax theory predicts a positive relation between country-level tax rates and firm-level pretax returns. Conversely, income shifting should make reported pretax returns inversely related to tax rates. Among single-country European firms, we find robust evidence of corporate implicit taxes following tax rate changes, concentrated in firms that rely less on intangible assets and firms in closed economies (non-EU countries). Among multinational firm affiliates, we find the effects of income shifting outweigh the effects of implicit taxes for firms with high intangibles and in countries with open borders. Our results imply income shifting estimated using only reported profits is less biased by implicit taxes in settings with open economies and firms with unique inputs or products. Our evidence also helps explain prior evidence of decreasing corporate implicit tax effects over time, particularly for multinationals.

The Determinants and Consequences of Tax Audits: Some Evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanfu Li ◽  
Jeffrey A. Pittman ◽  
Zi-Tian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Tax Reporting ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Using data obtained from a local tax office in China, we examine the determinants of corporate tax audits and the consequences of those audits. We find that the tax authority is more likely to select a firm for an audit when the firm has a lower effective tax rate, a higher book-tax difference, and more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Applying a difference-in-differences research design, we find that after firms have been audited, they significantly increase their effective tax rates, reduce their book-tax differences, and reduce their income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Our study provides important insights on the determinants of the tax authority's decision on whether to initiate an audit and the impact of tax audits on both tax reporting and financial reporting. JEL Classifications: H26; L51; M41.

The Impact of the Source of Changes in Marginal Tax Rates on Participation in Individual Retirement Accounts

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Individual Retirement Accounts ◽  
Retirement Accounts ◽  
Marginal Tax Rates ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Participation Decisions

This paper uses a series of two-year panels of tax return data to estimate the effects of two sources of tax rate changes on the participation in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). This paper uses a panel logit approach to control for individual specific fixed effects, which may also influence IRA participation behavior. This paper examines participation during the years of open eligibility for IRAs, as well as examining the impact of the 1986 tax reform on participation. A key finding of this paper is that taxpayers' IRA participation decisions are more sensitive to changes in tax rates due to changes in taxable income than to direct changes in the tax tables.

scholarly journals THE COST OF DIRECT TAXATION ON INVESTMENT IN BRAZIL

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Leitão Paes
Keyword(s):  
Tax Rates ◽  
Marginal Tax Rate ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
Economic Profit ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT This paper analyzed the impact of taxation on the investment in Brazil, focusing on the taxation of corporate income. Following the literature, it was used an economic model to calculate two indicators of effective tax rates - Effective Marginal Tax Rate (EMTR) and Effective Average Tax Rate (EATR). The EMTR measures the increase of the cost of capital due to corporate income tax. The EATR represents a measure of the average tax rate levied on an investment that has a pre-defined economic profit. The results suggest Brazil may face some difficulties to attract foreign investment. The country presents high rates for EATR and EMTR, higher than the average of the rich countries and well above the figures of development countries like Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Russia and China, potential competitors in attracting investments.

Impact of the Sales Tax Rate on its Base: Evidence from a Small Town

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Mikesell ◽  
C. Kurt Zorn
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Sales Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Share Model ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Impact

Local governments and businesses fear that increased local sales tax rates will induce losses to the local economy, even inducing losses so severe that no additional revenue will result from a higher tax rate. Earlier works by Fisher, Hamovitch, and Mikesell have examined sales loss in metropolitan areas, typically finding significant but not overwhelming effects. Those results do not address the question for small cities and typically are complicated by the expenditure effects resulting from the increased tax revenues. The present analysis uses unique data for a small town to examine the impact of a temporary sales tax rate increase with a retail sales share model. The evidence shows a significant but small sales impact that did not endure (a differential of 1% would lower city sales by 3.07%) and no impact on vendor location. The unfavorable rate differential produced a short-run effect, but not economic disaster.

Lease vs buy: clarifying the impact of tax and borrowing rates

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 686-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Musumeci ◽  
Thomas O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Rate Difference ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to survey the lease vs buy coverage in leading managerial finance textbooks and to clarify the impact of tax rates and borrowing rates. Design/methodology/approach The survey uses “plain vanilla” lease vs buy scenarios to critique and clarify particular issues in the textbook presentations. Findings The survey finds: a lone text shows that there can be a gain from leasing if the lessee’s tax rate is higher than the lessor’s, which challenges the “conventional wisdom” maintained in all the other texts; some textbook examples attribute an overall benefit to leasing to the tax rate difference, but the benefit is actually due to a borrowing rate difference, and borrowing rate differences may be a more important source of leasing benefits than tax rate differences. Originality/value The survey provides insights that are not well known and should be useful to instructors and practitioners.

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