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BEFIT - Formulary Apportionment in the European Union

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  • Marketa Mlcuchova

    (Department of Finance, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic)

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This paper seeks to contribute to the current debate on EU wide corporate taxation, steered by the impending BEFIT Proposal. The objective of this paper is to verify whether the inclusion of intangible assets will enhance the ability of the current proposals for Formulary Apportionment (FA) to explain variability in profitability. The research question addressed is "What is the explanatory power of the FA, for factors such as tangible assets, intangible assets, labour and sales by destination, to describe the variability in the profitability of companies active within the EU internal market?". The research reveals that the inclusion of intangible assets fails to enhance the explanatory power of the FA and that factoring in intangible assets does not appear to have a statistically significant effect in the model.

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  • Marketa Mlcuchova, 2023. "BEFIT - Formulary Apportionment in the European Union," MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics 2023-86, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics.
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    Keywords

    Formulary Apportionment; BEFIT; Separate Accounting; EU corporate taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • K34 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Tax Law

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