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Kern: Optimal Avoidability in Cross-Border Minimum Taxation

Adam Kern (University of San Diego) recently published Optimal Avoidability in Cross-Border Minimum Taxation in the Journal of Public Economics:

Many tax regimes collect revenue to the extent that other governments do not. This paper develops a theory of how such cross-border minimum taxes should be designed, focusing on choices that affect avoidance of the regime. Making a minimum tax more difficult to avoid retains more firms within the regime but weakens competition among tax havens. Havens then raise their rates toward the minimum, reducing the top-up tax rate on shifted profit. As a result, an avoidable minimum tax can raise more revenue for the governments that impose it than an unavoidable one.


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