Foreign Ownership and Corporate Income Taxation: An Empirical Evaluation

Harry Huizinga and Gaëtan Nicodème

Public Economics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Economic integration in Europe has not led to a ‘race to the bottom’ regarding corporate income taxes. This paper documents trends in the foreign ownership of companies in Europe and it examines whether foreign ownership has exerted a positive influence on corporate income tax levels. Using company-level data, we document that the foreign ownership share in Europe stood at around 21.5 percent in the year 2000. The estimation suggests that a one percentage point increase in foreign ownership increases the average corporate income tax rate between a half and one percent. Further international economic integration is likely to lead to higher foreign ownership shares with a concomitant positive influence on corporate taxation levels.

Keywords: corporate taxation; foreign ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 H25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2003-10-21
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