Integrating the Corporate Income Tax?

Search Costs and Corporate Income Tax Competition

This paper studies corporate tax competition if it is costly to learn some of the elements that determine the e¤ective tax burden. Search cost may, but need not, eliminate the tax competition pressure. The outcome depends on the boundaries of tax rate and tax base choices. Search cost can explain the empirically observed tax cuts cum base broadening. Keywords: Costly search, tax competition, co...

Investment, Accounting, and the Salience of the Corporate Income Tax

This paper develops the argument that accounting rules make the corporate income tax less salient and less distortionary by obscuring the timing of tax payments. I develop and estimate a model of investment where firms maximize a discounted weighted average of after-tax cash flows and accounting profits. The cost of capital, the tax wedge on the return on capital, and the impact of tax incentiv...

How Elastic is the Corporate Income Tax Base?

The Impact of Corporate income Tax and Firm Size on Fixed Investment

This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of income taxes and market capitalization on fixed investment (investment in tangible assets) by manufacturing companies listed on KSE. This paper basically examines that how corporate income taxes affect fixed investment by reducing cash flow available for a firm to invest and how the firm size in the lights of market capitalization affects fixed ...

Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base : evidence from German corporate tax return data

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effective corporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental variable approach. Our instrumen...