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Transfer Pricing Regulation and Taxation of Royalty Payments

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  • Juranek, Steffen
  • Schindler, Dirk
  • Schjelderup, Guttorm

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We analyze the implications of OECD methods to regulate transfer pricing and the role of a royalty tax for abusive transfer pricing. We show: (i) Under traditional methods, mispricing of royalty payments does not affect investment, but the Transactional Profit Split Method triggers higher investment to facilitate profit shifting. (ii) Royalty taxation reduces both profit shifting and investment. (iii) A royalty tax rate below the corporate tax rate leads to overinvestment in an ACE tax system.

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  • Juranek, Steffen & Schindler, Dirk & Schjelderup, Guttorm, 2017. "Transfer Pricing Regulation and Taxation of Royalty Payments," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168118, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business

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