Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Karin Edmark and Roger Gordon

No 982, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher income individuals face strong tax incentives to be corporate. The data suggest a relatively strong correlation between these tax incentives and the likelihood that a firm is corporate. 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: 48 pages
Date: 2013-10-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-acc, nep-cfn, nep-ent, nep-law, nep-pbe and nep-pub
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Working Paper: Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden (2013)
Working Paper: Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden (2013)
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