The Elasticity of Corporate Taxable Income Across Countries

Claudio Agostini, Zareh Asatryan, Laurent Bach, Govindadeva Bernier, Marinho Bertanha, Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Anne Brockmeyer, Jaroslav Bukovina, Guillermo Falcone, Pablo Garriga, Yuxuan He, Petr Janský, Evangelos Koumanakos, Tomáš Lichard, Tomás Martins, Ján Palguta, Elena Patel, João Pereira dos Santos, Louis Perrault, Thomas Schwab, Nathan Seegert, Oliver Škultéty, Kristina Strohmaier, Maximilian Todtenhaupt, Guillermo Vuletin and Branislav Žúdel

No 34945, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Do firms respond similarly to corporate tax incentives across countries? We provide globally comparable estimates of the corporate elasticity of taxable income using administrative tax return data from sixteen countries and a unified empirical framework. Exploiting bunching at a common kink, zero taxable income, we estimate elasticities ranging from 0.08 to 1.9, with an average of 0.79. To explain this heterogeneity, we link elasticities to tax policy, firm characteristics, and country fundamentals. These differences imply that identical corporate tax reforms can generate sharply different revenue effects across countries, leading to substantial heterogeneity in the efficiency costs of corporate taxation.

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Date: 2026-03
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