PROFIT SHIFTING OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS WORLDWIDE

PROFIT SHIFTING OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS WORLDWIDE

Autor: doc. Petr Janský Ph.D.
Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Typ: IES Working Papers
Rok: 2021
Číslo: 14
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Publikováno v: IES Working Papers 14/2021
Místo vydání: Prague
Klíčová slova: multinational corporation, corporate taxation, profit shifting, effective tax rate, country-by-country reporting, global development
JEL kódy: F23, H25, H26, H32
Citace: Garcia-Bernardo J. and Jansky P. (2021): "Profit Shifting of Multinational Corporations Worldwide" IES Working Papers 14/2021. IES FSV. Charles University.
Abstrakt: We exploit the new multinational corporations’ country-by-country reporting data with unparalleled country coverage to study profit shifting to tax havens. We show that a logarithmic function is preferable to linear and quadratic ones for modelling the extremely non-linear relationship between profits and tax rates. Using this methodology, we reveal that multinational corporations shifted US$1 trillion of profits in 2016 and that those headquartered in the United States and China did so most aggressively. We establish that the Cayman Islands is the largest tax haven, whereas countries with lower incomes tend to lose more tax revenue relative to total tax revenues.
Ke stažení: wp_2021_14_garcia-bernardo, jansky.pdf