Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76264 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 847
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their generosity is determined on the basis of Samuelson's true economic depreciation. For this purpose, the present value model is applied under the particular consideration of different financial structures. In this context the traditional Modigliani-Miller theorem for capital structure is revisited. Furthermore, the aspect of inflation is integrated into the model. The central issue is that the historical cost accounting method generally applied for the calculation of the corporate tax base causes fictitious profits in inflationary phases that are also taxed. Therefore, in an inflationary period generous tax depreciation provisions do not promote private investment as designed, but partly compensate such additional tax burdens caused by inflation.
Subjects: 
true economic depreciation
tax depreciation rules
corporate tax
investment decision
financial structure
net present value model
inflation
transition economies
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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