The case of taxing multinational corporations in Uganda: Do multinational corporations face lower effective tax rates and is there evidence for profit shifting?
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Multinational firms; Profit shifting; Effective tax rate;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ISF-2021-03-15 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-PBE-2021-03-15 (Public Economics)
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