 Behavioural responses to corporate profit taxationJohn Creedy and Norman Gemmell Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2010, vol. 193, issue 2, 109-130 Abstract: This paper examines behavioural responses by companies to changes in profit taxation in their home country. The elasticity of tax revenue with respect to changes in the corporation tax rate are decomposed into a variety of responses. As well as distinguising real from profit-shifting responses, it is important to separate the responses of gross profits from those of deductions (such as claims for past or current losses) where these are endogenously related to gross profits declared at home. This endogeneous response can be expected to differ over the business cycle, which can be important for empirical estimates of aggregate behavioural responses especially, but not exclusively, during cyclical downturns. It is suggested that the revenue elasticity can be expected to be asymmetrical between periods of aboveand below-trend growth, arising from the asymmetric treatment of losses by the tax function. Keywords: Corporation tax; profit shifting; revenue elasticity; tax asymmetries (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hpe:journl:y:2010:v:193:i:2:p:109-130 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics from IEF Contact information at EDIRC. |
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