This paper develops and analyzes a model in which tax considerations and financial reporting considerations have countervailing effects on a firm’s investments in internally developed intangible assets. It also proposes and estimates a new measure of tax preferences, which we call the economic effective tax rate. This measure reflects both investments in intangible assets and the use of debt fi...

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage of corporations 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. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity of the effective corp...

laffer curve indicates relationship between tax rate and tax income. the aim of this paper is estimating of laffer curve in iranian economy. to do so, we have used threshold regression method. empirical results indicate that since the tax rate is low (the threshold value is less than 0.0848) in two-regime model, tax rate and tax income have a significant positive relationship, but when the tax ...

We exploit an exhaustive administrative dataset that includes the individual tax returns of all households in the top percentile of the income distribution in Germany to pin down the effective income taxation of households with very high incomes. Taking tax base erosion into account, we find that the top percentile of the income distribution pays an effective average tax rate of 30.5 percent an...

An income tax is equivalent to a uniform tax on all expenditures, including expenditures on commodity tax payments. This will compound the tax being applied to any taxed commodity. In the presence of an income tax, therefore, any expenditure tax (including a pollution tax) will produce a higher effective tax than its nominal tax rate would suggest. For example, a nominal Pigouvian tax applied t...

In this paper, we propose a method of designing energy tax rate based on game theory. Through this method, the effect of energy tax on encouraging manufacturers’ improvement in energy efficiency is enhanced. Consequently policy makers can reduce the average burden of manufacturers brought by energy tax. Through utilizing game theory in a numerical example, we explain the effect of energy tax on...