How to eliminate pyramidal business groups - the double taxation of inter-corporate dividends and other incisive uses of tax policy
By: Randall Morck.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10944; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10944.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Dividends -- Taxation.; Corporations -- Taxation.; Double taxation.
Description: "Arguments for eliminating the double taxation of dividends apply only to dividends paid by corporations to individuals.  The double (and multiple) taxation of dividends paid by one firm to another - intercorporate dividends - was explicitly included in the 1930s as part of a package of tax and other policies aimed at eliminating United States pyramidal business groups.  These structures remain the predominant form of corporate organization outside the United States.  The first Roosevelt administration associated them with corporate governance problems, corporate tax avoidance, market power, and an objectionable concentration of economic power.  Future tax reforms in the United States should mind the original intent of Congress and the President regarding intercorporate dividend taxation.  Foreign governments may find the American experience of value should they desire to eliminate their business groups"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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