Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50021 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 273
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper considers the impact of changes in the rate of corporation tax in Ireland affecting the services sector. A model is estimated that relates services exports and output to world activity, competitiveness and the rate of corporation tax. This model indicates that a reduction in the rate of corporation tax in the 1990s stimulated exports and, even allowing for profit repatriations by foreign firms and replacement of lost tax revenue, it resulted in an increase in domestic output. The increase in profitability suggests that some of the increased output involved relocation of profits to Ireland by multinational firms.
Subjects: 
corporation tax
Ireland
services sector
JEL: 
F2
H25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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