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We investigate whether and to what extent the adoption of an intellectual property box increases innovative activity and the extent to which different types of firms benefit financially. We examine the adoption of the intellectual property box in Belgium because it allows us to cleanly identify the impact on innovative activity and effective tax rates. Our results indicate an overall increase in innovative activity as proxied by patent applications, grants, and highly-skilled employment, at the expense of patent quality. We also provide evidence that firms with patents on average enjoy 7.2% to 7.9% lower effective tax rates, with the greatest financial benefits accruing to multinational firms compared to domestic firms. Within multinational firms, those without income shifting opportunities appear to benefit more than other multinationals with income shifting opportunities. / Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series

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Sustainability has become an emphasised universal topic in recent years, especially just after the turn of the second millennium. Leaders from a wide range of disciplines and geographic locations have congregated to discuss their very real energy concerns and the potential solutions available to address them. Various notable conferences have been held from the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2002 to the more recent annual World Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in January 2013. South Africa and Brazil form part of the BRICS group of nations which is characterised by emerging and rapidly-growing economies. South Africa and Brazil both are favoured by sustainable energy environments with an abundance of sustainable energy resources. Both countries also have various tax incentives that are aimed at encouraging the production and use of sustainable energy. Despite these facts, a large disparity still exists between South Africa and Brazil pertaining to their sustainable energy usage as a percentage of their total primary energy usage. South Africa’s sustainable energy usage is extremely small compared to that of Brazil, and therefore this study aims to determine improvements for South Africa. Brazil’s tax related policies and legislation are instructive in this regard. The benefits of sustainable energy as opposed to energy generated from fossil fuels are evident from an analysis of their economic, environmental and social impacts. Tax incentives can take on various forms and although not the only factor, they would appear to be an important consideration in encouraging investments in sustainable energy. Numerous barriers are identified that directly affect both the ability and desirability of the production and use of sustainable energy. Some of the more significant barriers include high initial capital costs, regulatory frameworks and intellectual rights, the long term nature and payback period of sustainable energy projects and the availability of alternative fossil fuels. Tax incentives are one of the measures that, if appropriately used, could significantly reduce many sustainable energy related barriers. The study concludes that South Africa can learn from Brazil and implement improvements to its tax incentives and related policies and legislation. This would assist in addressing some of its key sustainable energy related barriers. Possible improvements noted include regulatory policies in which South Africa could consider implementing a sustainable energy obligation and mandate; improved certainty regarding South Africa’s research and development incentives; and improved benefits resulting from the research and development incentives. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / am2014 / Taxation / unrestricted

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) introduced tax incentives for the small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in 2001. These incentives were introduced to assist small business in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs and alleviating poverty. This policy decision is not unique to South Africa. Many other countries offer incentives to small businesses for a variety of reasons, which may differ from country to country. However, it is generally understood that small businesses often face challenges which require the State to intervene in the form of tax incentives. South Africa operates on a global economic platform. It is imperative that its efforts are comparable against those of its counterparts so that it can assess its situation and be able to channel resources in the right direction. This study uses a qualitative systematic literature review to compare the tax incentives offered to SMMEs in South Africa and Australia .Australia has been chosen because it is a developed country and also because it has a mature and simplified legislation. The findings of this study show that South Africa has provided good incentives, particularly in the area of attracting small businesses into the tax base but once these small businesses are in the base, there is nothing to ensure that they grow. On the other hand, Australia has not done much to bring small businesses into the tax base, but it provides good incentives, sufficient to enable business growth for those already in the system. One of the challenges faced by many small businesses is cash flow resources. This study has found that Australia’s tax incentives empower small businesses in the area of cash flow, as compared with the situation in South Africa. Future research studies should investigate the extent to which the respective small businesses are aware of the tax incentives available to them. That is, it must be established how far each country has gone in ensuring that small businesses are familiar with all the incentives at their disposal. / Die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens (SAID) het belastingaansporings skemas vir die klein, medium en makro-ondernemings (KMMOs) in 2001 ingestel. Hierdie aansporings is ingestel om die klein besighede te help om ekonomiese aktiwiteite te stimuleer, werk te skep, asook om armoede te verlig. Hierdie beleidsbesluit is nie uniek aan Suid-Afrika nie. Menige ander lande bied aansporings aan die klein ondernemings vir ‘n verskeidenheid van redes. Alhoewel hierdie redes kan verskil van land tot land, word dit algemeen verstaan dat klein ondernemings dikwels uitdagings ervaar wat vereis dat die staat ingryp in die vorm van belasting-aansporings. Suid-Afrika werk in ‘n wêreldwye ekonomiese platform. Dit is noodsaaklik dat Suid-Afrika se pogings met die van sy eweknieë vergelyk word om sodoende die huidige situasie te evalueer en in staat te wees om hulpbronne in die regte areas beskikbaar te stel. Hierdie studie maak gebruik van ‘n kwalitatiewe sistematiese literatuur oorsig om die belastingaansporings in beide Suid-Afrika en Australië vir KMMO’s te vergelyk. Australië is gekies weens die feit dat dit ‘n ontwikkelde land is en ook omdat dit oor goed ontwikkelde en eenvoudige wetgewing beskik. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie toon dat Suid-Afrika goeie belastingaansporings het, veral op die gebied om die klein ondernemings in die belastingbasis in te trek, maar wanneer hierdie klein ondernemings in die basis is, is daar niks in plek om te verseker dat hulle verder groei nie. Aan die ander kant, het Australië nie veel gedoen om klein besighede in die belastingbasis belastingbasis in te bring nie, maar Australië bied goeie voordele wat tot besigheidsgroei lei vir diegene wat reeds in die belastingsbasis ingeskakel is. Een van die uitdagings van baie klein besighede is kontantvloeibronne. Hierdie studie het bevind dat, Australië se belastingaansporings, die klein ondernemings se kontantvloei bevorder in teenstelling met die posisie in Suid-Afrika. Toekomstige Toekomstige navorsingstudies moet die mate waartoe die onderskeie klein ondernemings bewus is van die belastingaansporingsskemas wat beskikbaar is, ondersoek. Dit wil sê, daar moet vasgestel word hoe ver elke land gegaan het om te verseker dat kleinondernemings vertroud is met al die moontlikhede tot hulle beskikking. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Taxation / Unrestricted

The objective of this thesis is to empirically assess how the tax incentives of Law 11,196/05 have affected the landscape of private industrial innovation in Brazil. The main point is to verify to what extent this tax relief has contributed to the fostering of innovation in the country. To achieve this broad objective, three specific research questions were devised as axes of investigation, and they are addressed in each of the stand-alone papers that comprise this thesis. I begin by assessing whether the incentives have impacted the volume of innovation investment of beneficiary firms. This first analysis also considers the effect of the policy on innovation outputs and firms\' performance. The second research question considers the behavioral additionality, estimating changes caused by the incentives on the composition of the bundle of innovation investments and on the type of innovation pursued by firms. The third investigation assesses whether the reduction of the tax burden has attracted international innovation investment by diverting it from alternative destinations, thus testing the \'footloose R&D\' argument for the Brazilian case. The first two papers use microdata on Brazilian firms from the Industrial Innovation Survey (PINTEC) and other sources, and the impact is estimated through propensity score matching with difference-in-differences. The third study relies on aggregate country data, mainly on activities of foreign affiliates of U.S. multinationals and international patent applications; and panel data estimators are applied to measure and test the correlation of the Brazilian policy with international innovation investment directed to other countries. The main findings of the thesis are: (a) the average impact of the policy on R&D expenditures in 2011 was around five hundred thousand Brazilian reais, or 6.8% of the mean R&D spending of beneficiary firms, which is less than the average benefit per firm in the same year, suggesting some level of crowding-out in the short-run; (b) incentives also positively affected the size of R&D personnel (average effect represents 16% of the average size of R&D staff); (c) the policy raised the chances of firms to innovate between 2009 and 2011 by 16%; (d) incentives positively impacted company\'s growth around 5% of the mean number of employees of incentivized enterprises in 2011; (e) R&D intensity of the bulk of innovative activities increased 9.5% because of the incentives; (f) part of the R&D increase was counterbalanced by a reduction effect on spending with acquisition of external knowledge and introduction of innovations in the market; (g) beneficiary firms hired more researchers with undergraduate degrees only as an effect of the policy (18.5% of the average number of their research personnel with such educational level); and (h) in the case of multinational groups, the increase in innovation investment does not seem to have been caused by the diversion of investment from other countries. The empirical investigations present clear evidence of the three dimensions of policy impact: input, output and behavioral additionality. A number of implications are drawn from the studies for the improvement of the policy design. / O objetivo desta tese é avaliar empiricamente os impactos dos incentivos fiscais da Lei 11.196/05 na inovação industrial brasileira. O ponto central é identificar em que medida essa redução tributária vem contribuindo para impulsionar a inovação no país. Para atingir esse objetivo, três perguntas de pesquisa foram concebidas como eixos de investigação, cada uma sendo abordada em um dos ensaios que compõem esta tese. A primeira questão é se os incentivos fiscais elevaram o volume de investimentos das empresas beneficiárias em inovação. Essa primeira análise também considera o efeito da política sobre os resultados desses investimentos e desempenho das firmas. A segunda parte pergunta de pesquisa considera os efeitos da política sobre o comportamento das empresas, estimando as mudanças ocasionadas na composição dos investimentos e no tipo de inovação perseguido pelas firmas. O terceiro ponto de estudo é se a redução da carga tributária atraiu investimentos internacionais em inovação em detrimento de outros países, testando o argumento de \'footloose R&D\' para o caso brasileiro. Nos dois primeiros trabalhos são utilizados microdados de empresas brasileiras constantes da Pesquisa de Inovação Industrial (PINTEC) e outras fontes, sendo aplicado o escore de propensão com diferenças-em-diferenças para estimar o impacto. O terceiro estudo baseia-se em dados agregados de países, essencialmente sobre atividades de filiais estrangeiras de multinacionais norte-americanas e pedidos internacionais de patentes, sendo aplicados estimadores de painel para mensurar e testar a correlação da política fiscal brasileira com o investimento internacional em inovação direcionado para outros países. As principais conclusões da tese são: (a) o impacto médio da política nos gastos em P&D em 2011 foi de aproximadamente quinhentos mil reais, ou 6,8% da média dos investimentos em P&D das firmas beneficiárias; esse valor é inferior ao benefício médio por firma no mesmo ano, o que sugere algum nível de crowding-out da política no curto prazo; (b) os incentivos também afetaram positivamente o tamanho das equipes de pesquisa (efeito médio representa 16% do tamanho médio das equipes de P&D); (c) a política elevou as chances das firmas inovarem no período de 2009 a 2011 em 16%; (d) os incentivos impactaram positivamente o crescimento das firmas em cerca de 5% da força de trabalho das firmas beneficiárias em 2011; (e) a intensidade de P&D no conjunto de atividades inovativas cresceu 9,5% devido à política; (f) parte do incremento em P&D foi contrabalanceada por um redução nos gastos com aquisição de conhecimento externo e introdução de inovações no mercado; (g) empresas beneficiárias elevaram a contratação de pesquisadores com diploma de graduação (18.5% do número médio de pesquisadores com esse nível educacional nas firmas beneficiárias em 2011); e (h) no caso de grupos multinacionais, o aumento nos investimentos em inovação não parece ter sido causado pela realocação de investimentos de outros países. As análises empíricas apresentam evidência das três dimensões de impacto da política fiscal: insumos, resultados e comportamental. Diversas lições são extraídas dos estudos para o aprimoramento do desenho da política.

The promotion of science & technology and the creation of an enabling environment for countries innovation systems has been a growing worldwide trend in developed countries, with 21 out of 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) currently utilising some form of tax incentive program aimed at encouraging investment in research and development (R&D) by private industry. 1 Encouraging R&D and associated innovation is generally seen as an effective tool in advancing science and technology, which in turn leads to the creation of new products and services, an increase in international competitiveness of local business, direct foreign investment and social spin-offs in the form of increased employment and economic growth? R&D is, however, expensive and involves high levels of technical risk, with the costs and risk involved often outweighing the potential profit. Consequently, many businesses choose not to perform R&D, which has resulted in governments of most developed countries having implemented various incentives to encourage private business to undertake R&D. These incentives can take the form of either direct incentives (grants, soft loans, subsidies etc) or indirect incentives (such as tax incentives). Tax incentives effectively subsidise the costs of R&D, making it a more attractive and profitable alternative for business. Developed countries, including: the United States of America (US), the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, China, Canada and Australia have all adopted a combination of both direct and indirect incentives, with various tax incentive measures receiving much attention in the last 2 decades. In South Africa the legislation providing for R&D tax incentives has been substantially amended in recent years through a number of Taxation Amendment Acts,] culminating in the enactment of s lID of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (the Act). The aim of this dissertation is to critically examine the current South Afi'ican tax incentive scheme as contained in sliD, focusing on the eligibility requirements of that incentive. In addition, the dissertation will highlight design features and characteristics of the incentive, particularly in respect of its generosity, predictability, simplicity, administration and targeting. 4 The design and characteristics of the South African incentive is then compared to those of three different countries: the UK, Australia and Canada.s Based on the analysis and comparison, certain lessons are identified for South Africa6 and various opinions are advanced on the effectiveness of the current structure and whether particular aspects of it could be improved going forward. / Thesis (LL.M.)-Unversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.

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The objective of this thesis is to empirically assess how the tax incentives of Law 11,196/05 have affected the landscape of private industrial innovation in Brazil. The main point is to verify to what extent this tax relief has contributed to the fostering of innovation in the country. To achieve this broad objective, three specific research questions were devised as axes of investigation, and they are addressed in each of the stand-alone papers that comprise this thesis. I begin by assessing whether the incentives have impacted the volume of innovation investment of beneficiary firms. This first analysis also considers the effect of the policy on innovation outputs and firms\' performance. The second research question considers the behavioral additionality, estimating changes caused by the incentives on the composition of the bundle of innovation investments and on the type of innovation pursued by firms. The third investigation assesses whether the reduction of the tax burden has attracted international innovation investment by diverting it from alternative destinations, thus testing the \'footloose R&D\' argument for the Brazilian case. The first two papers use microdata on Brazilian firms from the Industrial Innovation Survey (PINTEC) and other sources, and the impact is estimated through propensity score matching with difference-in-differences. The third study relies on aggregate country data, mainly on activities of foreign affiliates of U.S. multinationals and international patent applications; and panel data estimators are applied to measure and test the correlation of the Brazilian policy with international innovation investment directed to other countries. The main findings of the thesis are: (a) the average impact of the policy on R&D expenditures in 2011 was around five hundred thousand Brazilian reais, or 6.8% of the mean R&D spending of beneficiary firms, which is less than the average benefit per firm in the same year, suggesting some level of crowding-out in the short-run; (b) incentives also positively affected the size of R&D personnel (average effect represents 16% of the average size of R&D staff); (c) the policy raised the chances of firms to innovate between 2009 and 2011 by 16%; (d) incentives positively impacted company\'s growth around 5% of the mean number of employees of incentivized enterprises in 2011; (e) R&D intensity of the bulk of innovative activities increased 9.5% because of the incentives; (f) part of the R&D increase was counterbalanced by a reduction effect on spending with acquisition of external knowledge and introduction of innovations in the market; (g) beneficiary firms hired more researchers with undergraduate degrees only as an effect of the policy (18.5% of the average number of their research personnel with such educational level); and (h) in the case of multinational groups, the increase in innovation investment does not seem to have been caused by the diversion of investment from other countries. The empirical investigations present clear evidence of the three dimensions of policy impact: input, output and behavioral additionality. A number of implications are drawn from the studies for the improvement of the policy design. / O objetivo desta tese é avaliar empiricamente os impactos dos incentivos fiscais da Lei 11.196/05 na inovação industrial brasileira. O ponto central é identificar em que medida essa redução tributária vem contribuindo para impulsionar a inovação no país. Para atingir esse objetivo, três perguntas de pesquisa foram concebidas como eixos de investigação, cada uma sendo abordada em um dos ensaios que compõem esta tese. A primeira questão é se os incentivos fiscais elevaram o volume de investimentos das empresas beneficiárias em inovação. Essa primeira análise também considera o efeito da política sobre os resultados desses investimentos e desempenho das firmas. A segunda parte pergunta de pesquisa considera os efeitos da política sobre o comportamento das empresas, estimando as mudanças ocasionadas na composição dos investimentos e no tipo de inovação perseguido pelas firmas. O terceiro ponto de estudo é se a redução da carga tributária atraiu investimentos internacionais em inovação em detrimento de outros países, testando o argumento de \'footloose R&D\' para o caso brasileiro. Nos dois primeiros trabalhos são utilizados microdados de empresas brasileiras constantes da Pesquisa de Inovação Industrial (PINTEC) e outras fontes, sendo aplicado o escore de propensão com diferenças-em-diferenças para estimar o impacto. O terceiro estudo baseia-se em dados agregados de países, essencialmente sobre atividades de filiais estrangeiras de multinacionais norte-americanas e pedidos internacionais de patentes, sendo aplicados estimadores de painel para mensurar e testar a correlação da política fiscal brasileira com o investimento internacional em inovação direcionado para outros países. As principais conclusões da tese são: (a) o impacto médio da política nos gastos em P&D em 2011 foi de aproximadamente quinhentos mil reais, ou 6,8% da média dos investimentos em P&D das firmas beneficiárias; esse valor é inferior ao benefício médio por firma no mesmo ano, o que sugere algum nível de crowding-out da política no curto prazo; (b) os incentivos também afetaram positivamente o tamanho das equipes de pesquisa (efeito médio representa 16% do tamanho médio das equipes de P&D); (c) a política elevou as chances das firmas inovarem no período de 2009 a 2011 em 16%; (d) os incentivos impactaram positivamente o crescimento das firmas em cerca de 5% da força de trabalho das firmas beneficiárias em 2011; (e) a intensidade de P&D no conjunto de atividades inovativas cresceu 9,5% devido à política; (f) parte do incremento em P&D foi contrabalanceada por um redução nos gastos com aquisição de conhecimento externo e introdução de inovações no mercado; (g) empresas beneficiárias elevaram a contratação de pesquisadores com diploma de graduação (18.5% do número médio de pesquisadores com esse nível educacional nas firmas beneficiárias em 2011); e (h) no caso de grupos multinacionais, o aumento nos investimentos em inovação não parece ter sido causado pela realocação de investimentos de outros países. As análises empíricas apresentam evidência das três dimensões de impacto da política fiscal: insumos, resultados e comportamental. Diversas lições são extraídas dos estudos para o aprimoramento do desenho da política.

nÃo hà / The purpose of this study is to analyze the survival of companies located in the State of Ceara and beneficiary of tax incentive within the Industrial Development Fund, specifically within the Industrial Development Incentive Program. Such benefit was created in 1979 and is currently the main fundraising tool of the new companies or the expansion tool of the existing companies in the State.The statistical technique of survival analysis of the nonlinear KAPLAN-MEIER nonparametric method was used, comparing the results of the beneficiary companies with the results of the non-beneficiary companies within the Industrial Development Fund/Industrial Development Incentive Program. The study took into consideration the location, the economic activity developed, the percentage of benefit and the turnover of the companies.The results demonstrate that the survival of the beneficiary companies is clearly superior to that of the non-beneficiary companies regardless their location, economic activity or size. The study also points out that segments of activity in which even the beneficiary companies present low survival indicators shall be subject to a scrutinized analysis by policy makers in the development of the State. / O objetivo do presente estudo à analisar a sobrevivÃncia de empresas localizadas no Estado do Cearà e beneficiÃrias de incentivos fiscais no Ãmbito do Fundo de Desenvolvimento Industrial - FDI, especificamente no Programa de Incentivo ao Desenvolvimento Industrial - Provin. Este benefÃcio foi criado em 1979, permanecendo atà hoje como o principal instrumento de captaÃÃo de novas empresas ou ampliaÃÃo das jà existentes no Estado. Foi empregada a tÃcnica estatÃstica de anÃlise de sobrevivÃncia a partir de modelos nÃo-lineares, utilizando-se o estimador nÃo-paramÃtrico de KAPLAN-MEIER, comparando-se, sempre que possÃvel, os resultados das empresas beneficiÃrias com os resultados obtidos para empresas nÃo-beneficiÃrias do FDI/Provin. O estudo levou em conta a localizaÃÃo, a atividade desenvolvida, o percentual do benefÃcio e o nÃvel do faturamento das empresas.Os resultados demonstraram que a sobrevivÃncia das empresas beneficiÃrias à nitidamente superior ao das empresas nÃo-beneficiÃrias, independente de localizaÃÃo, setor de atividade ou tamanho da empresa. Chama atenÃÃo, entretanto, segmentos de atividade nas quais, mesmo as empresas beneficiÃrias, apresentam baixos Ãndices de sobrevivÃncia e que, portanto, devem ser objeto de anÃlise mais acurada por parte dos formuladores das polÃticas de desenvolvimento do Estado.