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Tax competition and the international distribution of firm ownership: an invariance result
How does the international distribution of firm ownership affect the outcomes of tax/subsidy competition for mobile plants? As corporate ownership becomes increasingly globalised, this question becomes increasingly important for policy. We prove a strong invariance result in the context of the tax/subsidy competition between two host countries for a monopoly firm’s plant. Both the equilibrium plant location and the equilibrium tax/subsidy offers are independent of the international distribution of the firm’s ownership. The reason is that the tax/subsidy competition equalises the firm’s post-tax profits across countries, making owners of capital indifferent towards the location of production.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Economics
Published in
International Tax and Public FinanceVolume
17Issue
(5)Pages
Pp.518 - 531Citation
FERRETT, B. and WOOTON, I., 2010. Tax competition and the international distribution of firm ownership: an invariance result. International Tax and Public Finance, 17 (5), pp.518-531.Publisher
© SpringerVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2010Notes
The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10797-009-9126-z.ISSN
0927-5940eISSN
1573-6970Publisher version
Language
- en