Corporate tax incentives and capital structure: New evidence from UK firm-level tax returns

We investigate how companies’ capital structure is affected by corporate income taxes using confidential company-level tax returns for a large sample of UK firms. Exploiting variation in companies’ marginal tax rates, we find a positive and substantial long-run tax effect on leverage. Leverage respo...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Devereux, M, Maffini, G, Xing, J
Fformat: Journal article
Cyhoeddwyd: Elsevier 2017