Journal article
Examining Investor Expectations Concerning Tax Savings on the Repatriations of Foreign Earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol.29(2), pp.25-55
09/22/2007
DOI: 10.2308/jata.2007.29.2.25
Abstract
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 was signed into law on October 22, 2004. One of the most significant aspects of this legislation is a temporary tax holiday for dividend repatriations from foreign subsidiaries. U.S. multinational corporations may elect during a one-year window to deduct 85 percent of extraordinary cash dividends received from foreign subsidiaries. In this study, we model the impact that this legislation has on a firm's decision to either repatriate or reinvest foreign earnings from abroad. We then examine investors' assessment of how U.S. multinational corporations will respond to the temporary tax holiday. Our results indicate that investors repriced the tax liability consistent with investors anticipating that U.S. multinational corporations will repatriate a significant portion of their permanently reinvested foreign earnings during the tax holiday.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Examining Investor Expectations Concerning Tax Savings on the Repatriations of Foreign Earnings under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
- Creators
- Mitchell Oler - Virginia TechTerry Shevlin - University of WashingtonRyan Wilson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol.29(2), pp.25-55
- DOI
- 10.2308/jata.2007.29.2.25
- ISSN
- 0198-9073
- eISSN
- 1558-8017
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/22/2007
- Academic Unit
- Accounting
- Record Identifier
- 9984380443402771
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