
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2801905
This paper explores the impacts of adopting two corporate income tax reforms simultaneously: the conversion to a cash-flow tax, that would allow the expensing of investment while disallowing interest deductions, and the switch to sales-based formula apportionment, that would tax worldwide profits in proportion to domestic sales revenue. I find that the two reforms are complementary, each eliminating different distortionary impacts of the corporate income tax. Worldwide adoption of both reforms would result in the taxation of supernormal profits with only minimal tax distortions.However, just as multinational corporations can easily manipulate separate accounting to minimize tax burdens, by shifting profits across national boundaries, sales-formula-apportionment is also potentially vulnerable to tax avoidance, through shifting profits across industry boundaries. Thus, the attractiveness of the combined reform probably hinges on how well sales-formula-apportionment’s natural boundaries, between unrelated economic activities, can be established and maintained.
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