Replication Dataset - Effective corporate income taxation and its effect on capital accumulation: Cross-country evidence

Replication dataset for "Effective corporate income taxation and its effect on capital accumulation: Cross-country evidence"

Abstract
It is debated to what extent corporate taxation discourages capital formation, and the related empirical cross-country evidence is inconclusive. This paper provides new insights into this matter for a large sample of developed and developing countries. In a first step, national accounts data is used to calculate backward-looking effective corporate income tax rates (ECTR) for 77 countries during 1995–2018. In a second step, dynamic panel data regressions are used to estimate the effect of ECTR on aggregate corporate investment. The main findings of this exercise are that (i) statutory corporate income tax rates (SCTR), on average, are twice as high as ECTR, (ii) average ECTR have been relatively stable but show distinct dynamics across countries, and (iii) no significant negative relationship exists between ECTR and aggregate corporate investment. The latter finding is robust to different specifications and samples and when publicly available SCTR or forward-looking effective tax rate measures are used as alternative tax rate proxies.