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Taxing the multinational enterprise: On the forced redesign of global value chains and other inefficiencies

Journal of international business studies, 2019-12, Vol.50 (9), p.1644-1655 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018 Academy of International Business ;Academy of International Business 2018 ;Copyright Palgrave Macmillan Dec 2019 ;ISSN: 0047-2506 ;EISSN: 1478-6990 ;DOI: 10.1057/s41267-018-0159-3

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  • Title:
    Taxing the multinational enterprise: On the forced redesign of global value chains and other inefficiencies
  • Author: Foss, Nicolai J ; Mudambi, Ram ; Murtinu, Samuele
  • Subjects: Business ; Business and Management ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; Consumption ; Corporate profits ; Economic geography ; Geography ; Imposition ; Incentives ; International Business ; Management ; Multinational corporations ; Organization ; POINT ; Policy making ; Public finance ; Public goods ; Taxation ; Tempo ; Value chain ; Wealth
  • Is Part Of: Journal of international business studies, 2019-12, Vol.50 (9), p.1644-1655
  • Description: The taxation of the multinational enterprise (MNE) has been a continuing concern for policymakers. We argue that the changing nature of the mobile MNE (e.g., its improved ability to fine-slice the value chain and disperse it geographically) makes it increasingly important to rethink current tax policies. First, there should be more focus on the inefficiencies that arise when taxation leads to the inefficient location of MNE activities. Thus, MNEs may shift activities to low-tax jurisdictions that offer lucrative pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives, but do not enable their investments to maximize their contribution to global value creation. Second, international tax regimes should ensure that MNEs pay for their consumption of local public goods, and public finance scholars have long known that the taxation-based distortions are minimized when the tax objects are immobile. However, the bulk of current tax policies are aimed at corporate profits that are both poor proxies for the consumption of local public goods as well as extremely mobile. Integrating theory from international business, public finance and economic geography, our analysis demonstrates that moving the incidence of taxation from corporate profits to dividends and consumption would unambiguously improve both wealth creation and efficiency.
  • Publisher: London: Springer Science + Business Media
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0047-2506
    EISSN: 1478-6990
    DOI: 10.1057/s41267-018-0159-3
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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