Taxation and Corporate Debt: Are Banks any Different?

October 29, 2013

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Jost Heckemeyer, and Ruud A. de Mooij Taxation and Corporate Debt: Are Banks any Different?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

This paper explores whether corporate tax bias toward debt finance differs between banks and nonbanks, using a large panel of micro data. On average, it finds that there is no significant difference. The marginal tax effect for both banks and non-banks is close to 0.2. However, the responsiveness differs considerably across the size distribution and the conditional leverage distribution. For nonbanks, we find a U-shaped relationship between asset size and tax responsiveness, although this pattern does not hold universally across the conditional leverage distribution. For banks, in contrast, the tax responsiveness declines linearly in asset size. Quantile regressions show further that capitaltight banks are significantly less responsive than are capital-abundant banks; the same pattern holds for the largest non-banks. Still, even the largest banks with high conditional leverage ratios feature a significant, positive tax response.

Subject: Bank levy, Banking, Collateral, Corporate income tax, Debt bias, Financial institutions, Inflation, Prices, Tax policy, Taxes

Keywords: Bank, Bank assets, Bank choice, Bank dummy, Bank levy, Banks, Capital structure regression, Collateral, Corporate income tax, Corporate tax, Debt, Debt bias, Global, Inflation, Leverage, Leverage ratio, Non-financial firms, Quantile, Quantile regressions, Size distribution, WP

Publication Details

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29
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Working Paper No. 2013/221
Stock No:

WPIEA2013221
ISBN:

9781484330340
ISSN:

1018-5941

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