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A Comparison of the Tax‐Motivated Income Shifting of Multinationals in Territorial and Worldwide Countries

Contemporary Accounting Research 2016 33(1), 7-43
This paper tests for differences in the tax‐motivated income‐shifting behaviors of multinationals subject to different systems of taxing foreign earnings. I find that, on average, multinationals subject to territorial tax regimes shift more income than those subject to worldwide tax regimes. The difference in shifting, however, is driven by a difference in the subset of shifting that involves the parent country; multinationals in the two groups appear to shift equally among their foreign affiliates. In additional tests, I find that the shifting of worldwide firms is sensitive to reinvestment in the recipient countries, while that of territorial firms is not.