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The Alternative Minimum Tax and the Behavior of Multinational Corporations

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Andrew B. Lyon
Gerald Silverstein

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This paper examines the extent to which U.S.-based multinational corporations are affected by the alternative minimum tax. More than half of all foreign-source income received by corporations in 1990 was earned by corporations subject to the alternative minimum tax. The AMT rules potentially affect multinational corporations in a manner different from their effect on domestic corporations. The paper examines the differential incentives the AMT creates for locating investment either domestically or abroad and considers how the incentives for the repatriation of foreign-source income are affected by the AMT. Tax return data of U.S.-based multinationals are examined to see the extent to which these incentives may influence the repatriation of foreign-source income.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 4783.

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Publication status: published as The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations, eds. M. Feldstein, J. Hines, R.G. Hubbard, University of Chicago Press,1995.
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H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
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  1. Rosanne Altshuler & T. Scott Newlon, 1991. "The Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on the Income Repatriation Patterns of U.S. Multinational Corporations," NBER Working Papers 3925, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Andrew B. Lyon, 1992. "Tax Neutrality Under Parallel Tax Systems," NBER Reprints 1756, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  1. James R. Hines, Jr., 1994. "No Place Like Home: Tax Incentives and the Location of R&D by American Multinationals," NBER Working Papers 4574, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. James R. Hines, Jr., 1996. "Tax Policy and the Activities of Multinational Corporations," NBER Working Papers 5589, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Kenneth A. Froot & James R. Hines, Jr., 1995. "Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals," NBER Working Papers 4924, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Rainer Niemann & Corinna Treisch, 2005. "Group Taxation, Asymmetric Taxation and Cross-Border Investment Incentives in Austria," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
  5. C. Fritz Foley & Jay C. Hartzell & Sheridan Titman & Garry Twite, 2006. "Why do firms hold so much cash? A tax-based explanation," NBER Working Papers 12649, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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