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Corporate taxes and export competition

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  • Tobias Böhm
  • Antonia Hohmann
  • Roxanne Raabe
  • Nadine Riedel

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A broad empirical literature examines the impact of corporate taxes on firms' investment, location, and tax avoidance behaviour. Other corporate adjustment margins have received little attention. In this paper, we use administrative customs and tax return data from South Africa to demonstrate that corporate taxes influence firms' export performance and their competitiveness in international product markets.

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  • Tobias Böhm & Antonia Hohmann & Roxanne Raabe & Nadine Riedel, 2025. "Corporate taxes and export competition," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-38, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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