Taking the Long Way Home: U.S. Tax Evasion and Offshore Investments in U.S. Equity and Debt Markets

We empirically investigate one form of illegal investor-level tax evasion and its effect on foreign portfolio investment. In particular, we examine a form of round-tripping tax evasion in which U.S. individuals hide funds in entities located in offshore tax havens and then invest those funds in U.S....

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Main Authors: Hanlon, Michelle, Maydew, Edward L., Thornock, Jacob R.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Finance Association/Wiley 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98848
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-1310