This paper analyses the relationship between corporate taxes and exports of Italian firms. We use an integrated dataset for the manufacturing industry combining, for the period 2004-2006, survey data on enterprises and company accounts to analyse firms' export participation. Our results suggest that export propensity as well as export intensity are positively associated with corporate taxation. This finding can be traced out to greater ability of exporting firms to transfer the tax-induced costs on international markets, compared to domestic firms. The methodology used to calculate the average and the marginal corporate tax rates allows deriving firm-specific effective corporate tax rates
Corporate taxation and exports: evidence from Italian firm-level data
PARISI, Valentino;FEDERICI, Daniela
2014-01-01
Abstract
This paper analyses the relationship between corporate taxes and exports of Italian firms. We use an integrated dataset for the manufacturing industry combining, for the period 2004-2006, survey data on enterprises and company accounts to analyse firms' export participation. Our results suggest that export propensity as well as export intensity are positively associated with corporate taxation. This finding can be traced out to greater ability of exporting firms to transfer the tax-induced costs on international markets, compared to domestic firms. The methodology used to calculate the average and the marginal corporate tax rates allows deriving firm-specific effective corporate tax ratesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
