IP box effects in the gaming industry
Anna Białek-Jaworska,
Agnieszka Teterycz,
Ricardo Sichel and
Michał Woźniak
Central European Management Journal, 2023, vol. 31, issue 3, 291-325
Abstract:
Purpose - This paper aims to verify how the intellectual property (IP) box affects firms’ effective tax rate, growth and innovation activity outcomes related to intellectual property rights. Design/methodology/approach - Implementing the innovation box regimes into the tax system intends to encourage firms to engage in more innovative activities. In UK, Italy and Poland, the IP box tax relief was introduced in 2013, 2015 and 2019, respectively. In return, companies may reduce their tax rate to increase their investment and innovativeness. With a panel model approach – system GMM and DiD with multiple time periods – it analyses data from the Orbis database for 2011–2019 of 673 firms from the gaming industry in 11 countries and hand-collected data on intellectual property rights protection. The authors study public and private companies from the gaming sector in leading European markets and all three countries that protect intellectual property rights of software (Japan, South Korea, the USA). Findings - Recent reforms enable gaming companies to use preferential tax treatment for IP-related income and significantly impact a firm’s revenue growth. Practical implications - Nevertheless, European gaming firms require time to leap the gap to the growth and innovativeness of countries that protect software. Originality/value - The authors show that the IP box stimulates gaming firms to protect IP via wordmarks, figurative marks, trademarks and software patents that bring effects in five years. Despite the critics against IP box, the authors prove its lagged efficiency, especially in profitable and larger firms.
Keywords: IP box; Innovation box; Effective tax rate; Gaming industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1108/CEMJ-12-2021-0143
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