Digging into Caterpillar and BEPS: Economic substance and location

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Digging into Caterpillar and BEPS: Economic substance and location

April 29 2014
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In the second part of her analysis of Caterpillar’s tax affairs following the company’s appearance before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, Mirna Screpante, tax researcher, looks at the division between the location of activities and the location of taxable profits and proposes a method for determining economic substance.

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