Do corporate tax cuts reduce international profit shifting?:

This paper analyzes whether a corporate tax cut reduces profit shifting to low-tax countries. I use firm-level data of 2,812 German corporations around the Business Tax Reform in 2008. Applying a difference-in-differences framework with a one-on-one matching strategy, which compares earnings of mult...

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1. Verfasser: Brandstetter, Laura (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss. 2014
Schriftenreihe:Discussion paper / School of Business & Economics 2014,10 : FACTS
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Zusammenfassung:This paper analyzes whether a corporate tax cut reduces profit shifting to low-tax countries. I use firm-level data of 2,812 German corporations around the Business Tax Reform in 2008. Applying a difference-in-differences framework with a one-on-one matching strategy, which compares earnings of multinational and domestic corporations, I do not find empirical evidence that even a 10 percentage points cut in the business tax rate leads to a reduction of profit shifting activities.
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