Organizational capacity and profit shifting

Katarzyna Bilicka and Daniela Scur

No 16502, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Good organizational capacity drives productivity and potential taxable profits, but may also enable multinationals (MNEs) to more efficiently re-allocate profits across tax jurisdictions, lowering actual taxable profits. We show that MNE subsidiaries with better organizational capacity report significantly lower profits in high-tax countries. This pattern is not present in low-tax countries. Further, responsiveness to corporate tax rate changes in terms of profit reporting is driven by firms with good organizational capacity. We show our results are consistent with profit-shifting behavior and rule out key alternative channels.

Keywords: Profit shifting; Organizational capacity; Monitoring practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H26 H32 M11 M2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09
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