2020
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2020.4.09
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Corporate Behavioral Responses to the Tcja for Tax Years 2017–2018

Abstract: We analyze the initial corporate response to the 2017 enactment of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA). The TCJA changed many corporate tax provisions, including a reduction of the corporate statutory tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent effective in 2018 and sweeping changes to the taxation of income earned abroad by U.S. corporations. Based on a sample of U.S. corporate tax returns, we find that corporations accelerated deductions into 2017 and delayed income into 2018, thereby minimizing their taxes. We es… Show more

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“…These reforms and state PIT rate changes provide large income tax rate variation for our estimations. The TCJA also reduced the maximum CIT rate from 35 percent to a flat 21 percent (Dowd et al, 2020).…”
Section: C-corporations and Pass-through Entitiesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…These reforms and state PIT rate changes provide large income tax rate variation for our estimations. The TCJA also reduced the maximum CIT rate from 35 percent to a flat 21 percent (Dowd et al, 2020).…”
Section: C-corporations and Pass-through Entitiesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…For the purpose of international coordination, we prefer full creditability, but countries may choose to haircut foreign tax credits in order to preserve some sensitivity of domestic companies to foreign tax rates. 15 See Dowd, Giosa, and Willingham (2020) for early evidence on the experience with GILTI. The GILTI capture rate implies that the 10 percent exemption has substantial effects on revenues from the tax.…”
Section: Exemplarity: Collecting the Tax Deficit Of Multinationalsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Henry and Sansing (2020) examine the TCJA's effect on corporate tax preferences and how these vary with firm characteristics. Dowd et al (2020) analyze intertemporal responses to the TCJA. Finally, Altig et al (2020) estimate the differential effect of the deductibility of state and local taxes on red-and blue-state voters.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%