Taxing Intellectual Property in the Global Economy: A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting

Wolfram Richter

No 6564, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Inter-country equity in the taxation of IP is a contentious issue. With its BEPS initiative, the OECD aims at taxing in accordance with value creation even though there are admitted difficulties in determining the actual place of value creation. The European Commission promotes the introduction of unitary taxation. The proposal’s drawback is that it lacks incentive compatibility in information exchange. Furthermore, it stipulates a cost-dependent apportionment of the common consolidated corporate tax base that incentivizes locating R&D in low-tax countries. Against this background, this paper makes a case for an internationally regulated split of the profit earned with imported IP.

Keywords: intellectual property; tax competition; profit split; formulary apportionment; Shapley value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 H25 M48 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-ipr and nep-knm
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