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Private Firms and Offshore Finance

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  • Marcelo Ortiz

    (UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra [Barcelona])

  • Juan Imbet

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

We study how offshore vehicles (OVs) in tax havens affect domestic investment and taxrevenues among private firms. OVs encourage domestic investment by reducing the tax burdenof OV users. The induced investment can potentially expand the taxable income, creatinga trade-off that may counterbalance the direct tax base erosion traditionally associated withOVs. To test these hypotheses, we build and analyze a large data set of European privatefirms identified as OV users in offshore data leaks. Our findings suggest that OV users investmore and pay more taxes, and that these effects are stronger for standalone firms and for firmsoperating in intangible industries. For identification, we leverage the sequence of offshore dataleaks in a staggered difference-in-difference approach. Our results indicate that OV users reduceinvestments post-leak while their tax payments remain relatively stable.

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  • Marcelo Ortiz & Juan Imbet, 2024. "Private Firms and Offshore Finance," Working Papers hal-04398477, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04398477
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