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Corporation Tax Asymmetries and Firm-Level Investment in Canada

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Pierre-Pascal Gendron (The Business School, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning and International Tax Program, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Gordon Anderson () (Department of Economics, University of Toronto)
Jack M. Mintz (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

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Abstract

An empirical model is developed to estimate the probability of a given tax status based on firm characteristics. A structural switching regression model of the firm’s demand for capital goods is next specified and incorporates expressions for the user cost of capital which account for tax asymmetries. The switching model, which incorporates the estimated tax status probabilities, is used to investigate the potential endogeneity of the cost of capital using a balanced panel of Canadian companies over the period 1976-94. Empirical results suggest that tax status affects capital acquisition behaviour.

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Paper provided by International Tax Program, Institute for International Business, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in its series International Tax Program Papers with number 0303.

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Keywords: Corporation Tax; Losses; Investment; Regime Switching;

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H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Capital; Investment; Capacity

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