Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214906 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
arqus Discussion Paper No. 255
Publisher: 
Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus), Berlin
Abstract: 
European regulation mandates public country-by-country reporting for banks and is expected to increase costs of tax haven activities. We hand-collect data from IFRS consolidation scopes for European banks and test whether the availability of additional public information on banks' global activity reduces their tax haven presence. In a difference-in-difference analysis, we find that indeed tax haven presence has declined significantly after the introduction of mandatory public country-by-country reporting for European banks, as compared to the insurance industry, which is not subject to this regulation. In further tests, we show that this negative association is particularly driven by a reduction of subsidiaries in "Dot-Havens" and tax havens with high financial secrecy.
Subjects: 
country-by-country reporting
real effects
tax haven
tax disclosure
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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