Taxes, Technology Transfer, and the R&D Activities of Multinational Firms

James Hines

No 4932, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Multinational firms that use domestic technologies in foreign locations are required to pay royalties from foreign users to domestic owners. Foreign governments often tax these royalty payments. High royalty tax rates raise the cost of imported technologies. This paper examines the effect of royalty taxes on the local R&D intensities for foreign affiliates of multinational corporations, looking both at foreign-owned affiliates in the United States and at American-owned affiliates in other countries. The results indicate that higher royalty taxes are associated with greater R&D intensity on the part of affiliates, suggesting that local R&D is a substitute for imported technology.

JEL-codes: F23 H25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-11
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Published as The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations, eds. M. Feldstein, J. Hines, R. G. Hubbard, University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 225-248
Published as Taxes, Technology Transfer, and the R&D Activities of Multinational Firms , James R. Hines, Jr.. in The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations , Feldstein, Hines, and Hubbard. 1995

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