Arbeitspapier

Why Is the Corporate Tax Rate Lower than the Personal Tax Rate?

In many OECD countries, statutory corporate tax rates are lower than personal income tax rates. The present paper argues that this tax rate differentiation is an optimal tax policy if there are problems of asymmetric information between investors and firms in the capital market. The reduction of the corporate tax rate below the personale tax rate encourages equity financing and thus mitigates the excessive use of debt financing induced by asymmetric information. Our main theoretical result stands in marked contrast to the traditional view of corporate taxation and corporate finance theory, according to which there is a tax disadvantage to equity financing. More recent empirical evidence on this issue, however, is in line with our result.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: EPRU Working Paper Series ; No. 2000-17

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fuest, Clemens
Huber, Bernd
Nielsen, Søren Bo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
(wo)
Copenhagen
(wann)
2000

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fuest, Clemens
  • Huber, Bernd
  • Nielsen, Søren Bo
  • University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)

Entstanden

  • 2000

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