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- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
decipher from public filings. Their proposal, which will likely meet fierce opposition from accountants, lawyers, and managers, is a laudable first step in restoring sanity to U.S. corporate profit reporting. When the corporate tax was...
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by Mihir Desai
- 29 Sep 2011
- News
The myth of corporate tax reform
- August 1988 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Tax Related Crimes
By: Henry B. Reiling
Reiling, Henry B. "Tax Related Crimes." Harvard Business School Case 289-017, August 1988. (Revised September 1991.)
- January 11, 2003
- Article
Remote Control Tax
By: Mihir A. Desai
Keywords:
Taxation
Desai, Mihir A. "Remote Control Tax." Times of India (January 11, 2003), 14.
- 24 Nov 2009
- News
Homebuyer Tax Credits Threaten the FHA
- Jul 2014
- Report
International Tax Reform
Recent merger transactions highlight long-simmering problems in the U.S. corporate tax, particularly with respect to its international provisions. Desai's comments outline briefly the origins of these transactions, the range of alternative solutions, guidelines for...
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- June 2007
- Article
Theft and Taxes
By: Mihir A. Desai, I.J. Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales
Desai, Mihir A., I.J. Alexander Dyck, and Luigi Zingales. "Theft and Taxes." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 3 (June 2007). (Was NBER Working Paper No. 10978, 2006. Second Place Winner of the Jensen Prize for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2007.)
- April 2011
- Article
Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy
By: Mihir Desai and Li Jin
This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional...
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Institutional Investors;
Clienteles;
Payout Policy;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Taxation;
Ownership Stake;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Desai, Mihir, and Li Jin. "Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 1 (April 2011): 68–84.
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
The Obama administration reportedly is considering big changes in the broken system for taxing the foreign income of US corporations. US multinationals have piled up overseas cash holdings in excess of $1 trillion, according to some...
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- 13 May 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality
- February 13, 2023
- Editorial
The Secret Tax on Women’s Time
By: Lauren C. Howe, Lindsay B. Howe and Ashley V. Whillans
When studies revealed the so-called pink tax, showing in 2015 that personal hygiene products “for her” cost 13% more than similar products for men, it caused outrage and action. The irony that women, despite generally having fewer financial resources than men, are...
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Howe, Lauren C., Lindsay B. Howe, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Secret Tax on Women’s Time." Time 201, nos. 5-6 (February 13, 2023): 29.
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
Do Taxes Narrow the Wealth Gap?
- 2006
- Working Paper
Theft and Taxes
By: Mihir A. Desai, I.J. Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales
Desai, Mihir A., I.J. Alexander Dyck, and Luigi Zingales. "Theft and Taxes." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10978, February 2006.
- 08 May 2009
- News
Tax Dodge Myths
- Mar 2015
- Report
Tax Complexity and the Importance of Simplification
Complexity in the tax code has negative redistributive and growth consequences that have only accelerated over time as more and more policy goals are now implemented through the tax system. This testimony...
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- August 2018
- Supplement
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Supplement
The Tax Man: Taxes in Private Equity Real Estate
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Timothy J. Becker, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
U.S. Corporate Tax System Stifling Growth
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US 'tangled up' in tax structure
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United...
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl