Working Paper

Taxation and the Multinational Firm

Peter Egger, Michael Stimmelmayr
CESifo, Munich, 2017

CESifo Working Paper No. 6384

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to tax-avoidance practices, and discusses their remedies.

CESifo Category
Trade Policy
Public Finance
Keywords: taxation, foreign direct investment, multinational firms
JEL Classification: F210, F230, H250, H260