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Åsa Hansson
Associate professor
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Skatters inverkan på företags lokaliserings- och investeringsbeslut
How taxation influences business location and investment decisions
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Summary, in English
This report summarises the economic literature on the impact of taxation on business location and investment decisions. Even if the focus is on the impact the corporate income tax rate has on businesses’ localisation and investment decisions, other taxes, such as taxation of labour income and personal capital income, are also discussed.
The results of the report suggest that taxes play an important role for enterprises’ localisation and investment decisions. The corporate tax rate impacts where entreprises locate, where foreign direct investments take place, and where profits are reported. The corporate tax rate is an important policy instrument for especially new EU member states as they lack many of the other important factors, such as agglomeration effects, and can by having attractive corporate tax rates gain investments. Hence, the corporate tax rate should be lower in the new member states than in the old. Labour taxation is also an important factor influencing the amount of foreign direct investment that are invested in a country, but more so in the old member states.
While the corporate tax rate is important for already established and profit making enterprises, the personal capital income tax is relatively more important for the creation of new and innovative enterprises.
For Sweden – a small country located in the periphery – the implication of the results suggests that the corporate tax rate should be below the rate in the big countries located in the European core. In addition, it may be worthwhile to investigate whether the, in an international perspective, high tax rate on personal capital income hinders enterprise creation and should be lowered.
Department/s
- Department of Economics
Publishing year
2014
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
PM
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Document type
Report
Publisher
Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis (Myndigheten för tillväxtpolitiska utvärderingar och analys)
Topic
- Economics
Status
Published
Report number
18