Evidence for profit shifting with tax sensitive capital stocks

Simon Loretz and Socrates Mokkas

VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature providing indirect evidence for profit shifting within multinational companies. In contrast to the previous studies we account for the tax responsiveness of the capital stock and analyse the impact of corporate taxes on both pre- and post-tax profitability. Evidence from our large panel dataset of European subsidiaries supports the profit shifting hypothesis. We find that a 10 percentage point decrease in the tax rate increases post-tax profitability by up to 1.1 percentage points. Further, our results suggest that financial profits and losses are particularly responsive to taxes, which indicates that a large part of profit shifting takes places via debt shifting.

JEL-codes: C23 H25 H87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Evidence for Profit Shifting with Tax-sensitive Capital Stocks (2015)
Working Paper: Evidence for profit shifting with tax sensitive capital stocks (2011)
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