“…Second, income shifting from per sonal to corporate tax bases, or from non-corporate to the corporate sector due to the incentive effect of the low tax rate in the corporate sector has been suggested as another explanation for the paradox (Devereux and Sorensen, 2005;De Mooij and Nicodeme, 2008). Third, an increase of corporate prof itability and the size of the corporate sector may have increased the effective tax rate and, therefore, tax revenues Devereux and Sorensen, 2005;Auerbach, 2006;Simmons, 2006;Clausing, 2007).…”