| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19609 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19609 |
| Are Closely-Held Firms Tax Shelters? | |
| Annette Alstadsæter; Wojciech Kopczuk; Kjetil Telle | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-11-07 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In 2004 Norwegian authorities announced a reform introducing dividend taxation for personal (but not corporate) owners to take effect starting in 2006. This change provided incentives to maximize dividends in 2004 and 2005, and to retain earnings in the following years. Using Norwegian registry data that cover the universe of non-publicly traded firms, we find that dividend payments responded very strongly to the anticipated reform, but also that much of the response was compensated by re-injecting shareholder equity in the same firms. On the other hand, following the reform firms began to retain earnings. While all categories of assets grow, the increase in durable assets categories that include equipment, machinery, company cars, planes and boats, is particularly striking. We find that personally owned firms and those that pursued aggressive dividend maximization policy in anticipation of the reform exhibit lower profits and economic activity in its aftermath, but retain earnings and accumulated assets at comparable or faster rate than others. The differential effect on assets is concentrated in financial (a potential substitute for private saving) and durable (a potential substitute for private consumption) asset categories.We interpret these results as indicating both the existence of real tax responses and supportive of the notion that in the presence of dividend taxation closely-held firms partially serve as tax shelters. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Financial Economics ; Corporate Finance ; Public Economics ; Taxation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19609 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577284 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Annette Alstadsæter,Wojciech Kopczuk,Kjetil Telle. Are Closely-Held Firms Tax Shelters?. 2013. |
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