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Effects of Equalization Tax on Multinational Investments and Transfer Pricing

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Seppo Kari
Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja

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This paper analyzes effects of equalization tax on the decisions of a multinational company. Equalization tax is an extra corporation tax on dividend distributions to ensure that the underlying profit of a dividend has borne a tax in the corporate sector equal to the imputation credit given to the shareholder. Equalization tax is shown to increase incentives for home-country real and financial investments and for transfer pricing to shift taxable income even from low-tax countries to high-tax home-countries of the parent companies. The current EU process of exchanging the imputation system and an equalization tax for a classical system may thus have adverse tax revenue effects in the countries concerned, but improves efficiency of the global economy.

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Paper provided by Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT) in its series VATT Discussion Papers with number 337.

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Keywords: Dividend taxation International taxation Investment incentives Transfer pricing

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H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies

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  1. Seppo Kari & Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja, 2005. "Cost of Capital for Cross-border Investment: The Fallacy of Estonia as a Tax Haven," VATT Discussion Papers 367, Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT). [Downloadable!]
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