The international Challenges and Finnish Corporate Taxation

Lindgren Juha
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Lindgren Juha: Professor University of Vaasa

Nordic Tax Journal, 2014, vol. 2014, issue 2, 132-148

Abstract: One of the main trends in Finnish corporate taxation during the last ten years has been the lowering of the corporate tax rate. The decision to lower the corporate tax rate to 20% from the beginning of 2014 also changed the approach in reforming the corporate taxation as it was decided to stay on the grounds of a broad tax base and not to make loopholes in it with targeted exceptions. The Finnish corporate taxation contains also some provisions that act as incentives for investment and the establishment of companies. However, the focus has been lately on the rules with purpose to protect the national tax base. Therefore, article handles both the specific anti avoidance rules and the application of the general anti avoidance rule on the cross-border transactions. Some particular challenges and the exchange of information are also taken into account before the conclusion with some ideas and aspects on future reforms.

Keywords: Corporate taxation; incentives of investment and the establishment of companies; protection of tax base; general and specific anti avoidance rules (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1515/ntaxj-2014-0022

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