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Taxation and systematic risk under decreasing returns to scale

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  • Lund, Diderik

    (Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

Abstract

Lund (2002a) showed in a CAPM-type model how tax depreciation schedules affect required expected returns after taxes. Even without leverage higher tax rates implied lower betas when tax deductions were risk free. Here they are risky, and marginal investment is taxed together with inframarginal in an analytical model of decreasing returns. With imperfect loss offset tax claims are analogous to call options. The beta of equity is still decreasing in the tax rate, but increasing in the underlying volatility. The results are important if market data are used to infer required expected returns, and in discussions of tax design.

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Paper provided by Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 02-2003.

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Length: 50 pages
Date of creation: 02 Jun 2006
Handle: RePEc:hhs:cbsnow:2003_002
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Keywords: Corporate tax; depreciation; imperfect loss offset; decreasing returns; cost of capital; uncertainty;

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  • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies

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Cited by:

  1. Lund, Diderik, 2005. "An analytical model of required returns to equity under taxation with imperfect loss offset," Memorandum 13/2005, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
  2. Lund, Diderik, 2006. "Valuation, leverage and the cost of capital in the case of depreciable assets," Working Papers 03-2003, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
  3. Lund, Diderik, 2009. "Marginal versus Average Beta of Equity under Corporate Taxation," Memorandum 12/2009, Oslo University, Department of Economics.

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