Profit shifting by EU banks: evidence from country-by-country reporting
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance, 2018/4
We investigate profit shifting by the largest and systemically relevant European multinational banks using new data made available through country-by-country reporting for the financial years 2014-2016. We capture tax incentives for income shifting using a multilateral tax differential between the local tax rate and the tax rates in the other countries where the bank has operations. We find that profits - particularly those recorded in tax havens - are negatively affected by corporate taxation. Moreover, the bulk of income shifting seems to take place among subsidiaries, as foreign-to-foreign tax differences matter significantly more that home-to-foreign differentials. Simulation results suggest that the amount of shifted profits in tax havens is about 38% of true profits. The ratio between shifted and true profits drops to about 7% when selected non havens are considered.
FATICA Serena;
GREGORI Wildmer;
2018-06-25
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC111309
978-92-79-82749-5,
2467-2203,
OP KJ-AE-18-004-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC111309,
10.2760/326313,
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