Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records

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We examine business responses to a minimum tax that prescribed fixed floors on corporate tax liability while also permitting minimum tax credit carry-forwards. Using 2010-2020 tax-return administrative data on all Slovak corporations, we find that a mass of companies immediately relocated from reporting zero taxable income towards bunching at the new tax floors. We infer the ETI to be between 0.33 and 2.28 across VAT and turnover categories and quantify the marginal efficiency burden of the corporation tax. Given limited extensive-margin business responses, our evidence suggests that the minimum tax reduced the overall efficiency burden while raising additional tax revenue.

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.14473/csda/x537c6
Metadata Access https://api.datacite.org/dois/10.14473/csda/x537c6
Provenance
Creator Bukovina, Jaroslav; Lichard, Tomáš; Palguta, Ján; Žúdel, Branislav
Publisher CSDA
Contributor Faculty of Economics and Administration; Czech Social Science Data Archive
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference European Union - Next Generation EU (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, NPO: EXCELES): LX22NPO5101; GACR: 19-15943S; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades: PID2023-150638NB-I00
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; administrative records data
Version 1.0
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Slovakia