Tax Incentives for Copyright

Dick Molenaar ()
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Dick Molenaar: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter Chapter 10 in Tax Incentives for the Creative Industries, 2017, pp 193-209 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Copyright belongs to the creative industries as the legal result of the creative process. It can be sold or licensed and often creates income. By its nature, copyright is highly mobile and can easily cross borders, because it can be split off from normal business activities and held as a separate asset. States are interested in stimulating or attracting copyright, as they believe this has a positive effect on their economic activities or because they want to support their artists. States may implement a broad range of tax incentives, which may focus on low-earning creatives, major companies with high copyright income, or anything in between. Copyright income can easily be taxed twice in cross-border situations, a situation that states try to prevent through the use of tax treatiesTreaties . This leads to opportunities for international structuring. Limits on this structuring are currently being set internationally with the Anti Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPSBEPS ) program. However, this should not necessarily affect well-intended copyright tax incentive schemes.

Keywords: Copyright; BEPS; IP boxes; R&D incentives; Bilateral tax treaties; Harmful tax competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-832-8_10

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