Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Karin Edmark and Roger Gordon

No 907, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher income households face strong tax incentives to be corporate. The data suggest a strong response to these tax incentives. Many conventional non-tax determinants are confirmed in the data as well.

Keywords: Self-employment; Entrepreneurship; Taxation of closely-held businesses; Business organizational form (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 G38 H25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2012-03-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-ent, nep-eur and nep-pbe
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