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Corporate tax in an international environment - Problems and possible remedies
Kari, Seppo
VATT Working Papers : 62 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.03.2015)This paper addresses the problems of corporate taxation in a globalized world. It first illustrates recent trends in international practices and then reviews the literature on the effects of corporate taxes in closed and ... -
Dividend taxes and decisions of MNEs: Evidence from a Finnish tax reform
Kari, Seppo; Harju, Jarkko
VATT Working Papers : 27 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 12.10.2011)We explore how a firm-level tax on redistributed foreign profits affects the choices of a multinational enterprise (MNE) using evidence from a recent tax reform in Finland. The so-called equalization tax (EQT) used to be ... -
The impact of dividend taxation on dividends and investment: New evidence based on a natural experiment
Kari, Seppo; Karikallio, Hanna; Pirttilä, Jukka
VATT Working Papers : 9 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 08.09.2009)There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment and the evidence is based mainly on the behaviour of large listed companies. This paper utilises a large ... -
Investment Incentives and Tax Competition under the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI)
Kari, Seppo; Laitila, Jussi; Ropponen, Olli
VATT Working Papers : 110 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 24.10.2018)We employ a dynamic investment model to study the investment incentives of the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI) proposed by the European Commission in its two-step approach towards the Common Consolidated Corporate ... -
Non-linear dividend tax and dynamics of the firm
Kari, Seppo; Laitila, Jussi
VATT Working Papers : 41 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 07.12.2012)This paper analyses the implications of a non-linear dividend tax in a life-cycle model of the firm. In the model new firms first enter markets, then grow, financing from retained earnings and finally distribute their ... -
A Note on the Effects of Income-Splitting under Dual Income Tax
Kari, Seppo; Ropponen, Olli
VATT Working Papers : 81 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 14.10.2016)This paper reconsiders the income-splitting rules of the Nordic dual income tax system, introduced to address the incentives to shift income between labor and capital income tax bases. These rules impute a return on equity, ... -
The effects of tax-deductible reserves on investment incentives
Kari, Seppo
VATT Working Papers : 93 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 18.08.2017)This paper investigates how tax-deductible reserves affect the incentive to invest. We consider two different variants: a periodization reserve (PER), which allows the firm to defer tax payments for a certain number of ...