Witholding Taxes and the Cost of Public Debt

Harry Huizinga

No 1994/018, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Several industrialized countries impose withholding taxes on public interest accruing to nonresidents. This paper examines the international incidence of such withholding taxes by estimating to what extent these taxes raise the cost of government borrowing. It is found that the pretax interest rate is most sensitive to the tax withheld on Japanese investors. In particular, the gross-up is about half of this tax, which suggests that about half is returned to the investor in the form of foreign tax credits. The extent of the gross-up rises over the 1989-93 period, which indicates that in recent years foreign tax credits have been available to a lesser extent.

Keywords: WP; withholding tax tax rate; cost of funds; nonresident withholding taxes; international withholding tax rate; T-bill interest rates; nonresident withholding tax rate; Withholding tax; Interest tax; Tax allowances; Income tax systems; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1994-02-01
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