Dutch Shell Companies and International Tax Planning

Arjan Lejour, Jan Möhlmann (), Maarten van 't Riet () and Thijs Benschop
Additional contact information
Jan Möhlmann: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Maarten van 't Riet: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

No 402, CPB Discussion Paper from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This paper uses the financial statements of special purpose entities (SPEs) for explaining the origin and destination of dividend, interest, and royalty flows passing the Netherlands. We find that Bermuda is the most important destination for royalty flows. These flows come from Ireland, Singapore and the United States. For dividend and interest payments the geographical pattern is more widespread. We find a substantial tax reduction for royalties by using Dutch SPEs compared to a direct flow between the origin and destination country. However, we cannot find such tax savings for dividends and interest with an approximation based on statutory tax rates. This Discussion Paper reports research on the financial flows already presented in the CPB Policy Brief of 24 January 2019: Conduit country the Netherlands in the spotlight.

JEL-codes: G32 H25 H32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cpb.nl/sites/default/files/omnidownload/Mp_finroutdraft%20DP.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Dutch Shell Companies and International Tax Planning (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpb:discus:402

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CPB Discussion Paper from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().