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We use financial statement information to estimate three alterantive average effective tax rates for firms domiciled in Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the period 1982 to 1991. While many of the firms we examine operate worldwide, we use the term domicile to refer to the legal residence or site of incorporation of the parent company. Our objective is to determine the marginal impact of a company’s domicile on its worldwide tax burden, with controls for industry and year. We find both among domestic-only companies and among multinational companies the domiciles are consistently ranked in descending order by average effective tax rates as Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. In comparing domestic-only companies and multinationals domiciled in the same jurisdiction, only U.S. multinationals consistently face a greater tax burden than their domestic counterparts.
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Collins, J.H., Shackelford, D.A. (1996). Corporate Domicile and Average Effective Tax Rates: The Cases of Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In: Slemrod, J. (eds) The Taxation of Multinational Corporations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1818-4_4
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