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Organizational-Form Choice and Tax Incentives: Multi-Country Evidence

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  • Arjan Lejour
  • Gabriella Massenz

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We study how differential taxation of personal and corporate income impacts the corporate share of new firms for 31 countries over 1998-2018. We build a novel database that identifies the tax treatment of partnerships either as corporations or as passthrough entities. We find a tax elasticity of 0.07 for the period 1998-2007 and of 0.12 for 2008-2018. Estimates are larger for countries where the presence of partnerships is nonnegligible and where they are treated as passthrough for tax purposes, suggesting that the tax sensitivity of organizational-form choice interacts with the relevance of partnerships and their tax treatment.

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  • Arjan Lejour & Gabriella Massenz, 2021. "Organizational-Form Choice and Tax Incentives: Multi-Country Evidence," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 77(3), pages 247-286.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:doi:10.1628/fa-2021-0010
    DOI: 10.1628/fa-2021-0010
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    1. Massenz, Gabriella, 2023. "On the behavioral effects of tax policy," Other publications TiSEM eb44a9f7-b859-480d-b2e4-4, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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    Keywords

    corporate income tax; personal income tax; organizational form; partnerships;
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    JEL classification:

    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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