Arbeitspapier

Shifts in organizational form under a dual income tax system

Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel data that combine information from several public registers, we observe Norwegian owners of small businesses and their organizational forms in the period from 1993 to 2003. Under the hypothesis that certain characteristics of the Norwegian dual income tax system encourage shifts into widely held corporations, we observe outcomes for different organizational form choices. We show that owners of small firms that became widely held corporations have higher income growth than those that remained in self-employment or as a closely held corporation.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 529

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Subject
income shifting
small businesses
organizational shifts
dual income tax

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Thoresen, Thor O.
Alstadsæter, Annette
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(where)
Oslo
(when)
2008

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Thoresen, Thor O.
  • Alstadsæter, Annette
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Time of origin

  • 2008

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