Taxation and Leverage in International Banking:

This paper explores how corporate taxes affect the financial structure of multinational banks. Guided by a simple theory of optimal capital structure it tests (i) whether corporate taxes induce subsidiary banks to raise their debt-asset ratio in light of the traditional debt bias; and (ii) whether i...

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1. Verfasser: Gu, Grace Weishi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2012
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 12/281
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Zusammenfassung:This paper explores how corporate taxes affect the financial structure of multinational banks. Guided by a simple theory of optimal capital structure it tests (i) whether corporate taxes induce subsidiary banks to raise their debt-asset ratio in light of the traditional debt bias; and (ii) whether international corporate tax differentials vis-a-vis foreign subsidiary banks affect the intra-bank capital structure through international debt shifting. Using a novel subsidiary-level dataset for 558 commercial bank subsidiaries of the 86 largest multinational banks in the world, we find that taxes matter significantly, through both the traditional debt bias channel and the international debt shifting that is due to the international tax differentials. The latter channel is more robust and tends to be quantitatively more important. Our results imply that taxation causes significant international debt spillovers through multinational banks, which has potentially important implications for tax policy
Beschreibung:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Dec. 5, 2012). - "Fiscal Affairs Department.". - "November 2012."
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (35 Seiten)
ISBN:1475572204
9781475572209
9781475549386
1475549385
147554068X
9781475540680
ISSN:1018-5941

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