Arbeitspapier

Quality versus quantity: the composition effect of corporate taxation on foreign direct investment

This paper studies corporate taxation in a model where foreign investment of firms may affect the profitability of the investor firm's domestic activities. In this framework, corporate taxes distort the quality, not just the quantity of foreign direct investment flows. High-tax countries may see their tax revenues decrease in response to inbound foreign direct investment. Our results also imply that empirical studies on international profit shifting may overestimate the role of profit shifting. Observed profitability differences between high and low tax countries may be due to project selection. Empirical evidence in support of the main hypotheses is provided using aggregate investment and tax revenue data from a sample of OECD countries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2126

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Multinational Firms; International Business
Thema
corporate taxation
foreign direct investment
Unternehmensbesteuerung
Standortfaktor
Direktinvestition
Multinationales Unternehmen
Schätzung
OECD-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Becker, Johannes
Fuest, Clemens
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Becker, Johannes
  • Fuest, Clemens
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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