Profit-shifting from Czech multinational companies to European tax havens

Petr Janský and Ondřej Kokeš

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 16, 1130-1133

Abstract: Although tax havens have been affecting other countries for decades, only in recent years have the associated challenges been subject to intensive scrutiny in both research and policy areas. We contribute to the growing evidence of corporate tax base erosion and profit-shifting by testing multinational companies’ ownership links to individual tax havens rather than to groups of them, as is the case with most previous research. Our company-level analysis suggests that profit shifts through debt financing from the Czech Republic to Luxembourg, Switzerland and, to a lesser extent, the Netherlands. We have ascertained that tax havens are not limited to tiny islands and may actually be found among European countries. We also provide rough estimates of the impact of this profit-shifting on tax revenues as well as a policy recommendation.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1137543

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