Taxing away M&A : : capital gains taxation and acquisition activity
Abstract: Capital gains taxation distorts the market for corporate control by imposing a cost on selling shareholders in acquisitions. This lock-in effect increases premiums required for deal completion preventing some M&As from taking place at all. We estimate the effect of capital gains taxation on the quantity of realized M&A deals and compute the deadweight loss related to taxing these transactions. We find that a one percentage point increase in the capital gains tax rate reduces acquisition activity by around 1% annually. For the United States, this implies unrealized synergy gains of $9.3 billion each year due to capital gains taxes
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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European economic review. - 128 (2020) , 103505, ISSN: 0014-2921
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Freiburg
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Universität
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2024
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10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103505
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2597574
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- 2024