Home or Away? : Profit Shifting with Territorial Taxation /
In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that the profitability of UK subsidiarie...
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| Format: | Tidsskrift |
| Sprog: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2022.
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| Serier: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2022/177 |
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| Online adgang: | Full text available on IMF |
| Summary: | In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that the profitability of UK subsidiaries in low-tax countries increased after the reform compared to subsidiaries of non-UK multinationals in the same countries by an average of 2 percentage points. This increase in profit shifting also leads to increases in measured productivity of the foreign affiliates of UK multinationals of between 5 and 9 percent. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (38 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISBN: | 9798400216992 |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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