Development and Effectiveness of Controlled-Foreign-Company Rules : Empirical evidence from European multinational companies
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Abstract
This thesis studies the development of CFC rules and assesses the effect that \nCFC rules have on capital structure decisions of MNCs. CFC rules are an anti-taxavoidance \nmeasure that aims to prevent profit shifting. If CFC rules are applied, income \nof a foreign affiliate is added to the tax base of the parent and, therefore, taxed at the \ntax rate of the parent’s country of residence. \nFirst, we review the development of CFC regimes in Europe, the US, and \nCanada (2000 - 2015). Second, we create a panel data set of European companies with \nparents headquartered in Europe, the US, or Canada (2004 - 2015). This data set, which \ncontains financial and historical ownership data that is obtained from Amadeus and \nOrbis databases, respectively, is further used in econometric analysis. \nOur empirical analysis suggests that a parent country’s CFC rules have a \nnegative effect on an affiliate’s total debt-to-asset ratio and an increase in the strictness \nof CFC rules is associated with a further decrease in leverage. These findings also hold \nwhen we control for thin-capitalization rules and transfer pricing rules. Therefore, it \ncan be argued that CFC rules make internal lending as a profit shifting channel less \nattractive for MNCs. Furthermore, the results suggest that also thin-capitalization rules \nand transfer pricing rules are effective in limiting profit shifting activities by European \nMNCs. \nWe find that since 2006, when the European Court of Justice issued a landmark \ndecision in the Cadbury-Schweppes (C-196/04) case, the negative effect of CFC rules \non an affiliate’s leverage has weakened. Nevertheless, we argue that the role of CFC \nrules in corporate decision making should not be disregarded.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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