Arbeitspapier

Who Cares about Corporate Taxation? Asymmetric Tax Effects on Outbound FDI

This paper investigates whether different types of FDI are asymmetrically affected by corporate taxation. We classify investment projects according to several characteristics such as the general motivation for FDI, the type of business activity, or the degree of internationalization of the multinational. Subsequently, we analyze how local taxes influence the number of German outbound investments in European countries. The analysis reveals significant asymmetries with regard to tax effects: vertically integrated investments are more sensitive to host-country taxation than horizontal FDI; larger taxrate elasticities are estimated if business activities are considered highly mobile; in accordance with profit-shifting arguments, subsidiaries of more internationalized companies are less tax responsive to host taxation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 59

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Multinational Firms; International Business
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Firm
Thema
FDI
corporate taxation
multinational company
count data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Overesch, Michael
Wamser, Georg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Overesch, Michael
  • Wamser, Georg
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2008

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