TAX RESEARCH Financial Accounting versus Tax Accounting - Tax Rules’ Impact on Investment Decisions

Income Tax Accounting under the Tax Consolidation System

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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...

Formula Apportionment or Separate Accounting? Tax-Induced Distortions of Multinationals' Locational Investment Decisions

We examine which tax allocation system leads to more severe distortions with respect to locational investment decisions. We consider separate accounting (SA) and formula apportionment (FA). The effects of both systems have been hotly debated in Europe in the past years. The reason is that the EU Member States are striving to implement a common European tax system that would lead to a switch fro...

International Lease Accounting and Tax Consequences: The Hong Kong Perspective

Tax Rate and Tax Base Competition for Foreign Direct Investment

This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments compete for FDI using corporate tax rates and tax bases. The model’s predictions regarding the slope o...