Taxes and Multinational Enterprises in the EU

Stöwhase, Sven (2005): Taxes and Multinational Enterprises in the EU: Location Decisions and Income Shifting. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of Economics

Abstract

This work analyses how taxes determine the activities of multinational enterprises within the EU. Using disaggregated data, it is shown empirically, that different types of foreign direct investment react in different ways to alternative measures of the tax burden. It is shown theoretically, that this result is consistent with tax minimising income shifting activities. Moreover, in a setting of asymmetric capital tax competition, it is shown that income shifting alters the choice of optimal tax rates and that it will not inevitably increase competitive pressure on equilibrium tax rates.

• Item Type: Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich)
• Keywords: tax competition, income shifting, FDI
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences; 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Faculties: Faculty of Economics
• Language: English
• Date of oral examination: 4. July 2005
• 1. Referee: Haufler, Andreas
• Signature of the printed copy: 0001/UMC 14719