01955cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018577 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484363997 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Beer, Sebastian. International Corporate Tax Avoidance : A Review of the Channels, Magnitudes, and Blind Spots / Sebastian Beer, Ruud A. Mooij, Li Liu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018. 1 online resource (45 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper reviews the rapidly growing empirical literature on international tax avoidance by multinational corporations. It surveys evidence on main channels of corporate tax avoidance including transfer mispricing, international debt shifting, treaty shopping, tax deferral and corporate inversions. Moreover, it performs a meta analysis of the extensive literature that estimates the overall size of profit shifting. We find that the literature suggests that, on average, a 1 percentage-point lower corporate tax rate will expand before-tax income by 1 percent-an effect that is larger than reported as the consensus estimate in previous surveys and tends to be increasing over time. The literature on tax avoidance still has several unresolved puzzles and blind spots that require further research. Mode of access: Internet Liu, Li. Mooij, Ruud A. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/168 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2018/168/001.2018.issue-168-en.xml IMF e-Library