Arbeitspapier

Profit Shifting of Multinational Corporations Worldwide

We exploit the new multinational corporations' country-by-country reporting datawith unparalleled country coverage to study profit shifting to tax havens. We showthat a logarithmic function is preferable to linear and quadratic ones for modelling the extremely non-linear relationship between profits and tax rates. Using thismethodology, we reveal that multinational corporations shifted US$1 trillion of profits in 2016 and that those headquartered in the United States and China did so most aggressively. We establish that the Cayman Islands is the largest tax haven, whereas countries with lower incomes tend to lose more tax revenue relative to total tax revenues.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 14/2021

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multinational Firms; International Business
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Firm
Thema
multinational corporation
corporate taxation
profit shifting
effective tax rate
country-by-country reporting
global development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Garcia-Bernardo, Javier
Jansky, Petr
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
(wo)
Prague
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Garcia-Bernardo, Javier
  • Jansky, Petr
  • Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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