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Corporate Income Tax and Economic Distortions

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  • Gaëtan Nicodème

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As any non-lump-sum tax, corporate income taxation creates distortions in economic choices, reducing its efficiency. This paper reviews some of these domestic and international distortions and their most recent estimates from the economic literature. Distortions originating from income shifting between capital and labour sources, profit shifting across jurisdictions, the effects of taxation on business location and foreign direct investment are the major sources of distortions.

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Paper provided by ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles in its series Working Papers CEB with number 08-033.RS.

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Length: 20 p.
Date of creation: 2008
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Keywords: Corporate taxation; distortions; tax efficiency.;

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  1. Zodrow, George R. & Diamond, John W., 2013. "Dynamic Overlapping Generations Computable General Equilibrium Models and the Analysis of Tax Policy: The Diamond–Zodrow Model," Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, Elsevier.
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