由於提供數位經濟服務的跨國公司不須在市場國建立恆久據點,導致利潤來源地政府無法適用傳統的常設機構原則進行課稅。面對此項國際稅收分配的挑戰,經濟暨合作發展組織(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD)在2013年公告「防止稅基侵蝕與利潤移轉計畫」 (BEPS),試圖建立一致的課稅替代方案。然而,部分國家後續卻自行開徵數位服務稅,美國川普政府對這些國家威脅使用301條款並發起關稅報復,直到2021年美國拜登政府支持雙柱方針共識,英、法等國終於放棄片面課徵的數位稅。本文透過單一個案和過程追蹤法,剖析各國遵循BEPS的考量。首先根據霸權穩定論的公共財邏輯,本文指出美國願意制止本國數位企業利用稅法漏洞,有助於各國遵循BEPS。其次,依照企業影響力邏輯,本文發現當美國科技巨擘表達承擔更多稅額給利潤來源地政府的偏好,而非忍受單邊數位稅造成的營運不確定性,可促使美國政府支持BEPS。本研究發現延伸霸權穩定論在國際稅務領域的分析效果,並透過檢視企業與政府的互動,解釋霸權為何初期卸責而後妥協承擔責任。
Host countries cannot tax digital multinational corporations (MNCs) based on the traditional permanent establishment principle because digital services are intangible. To address this challenge, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated the “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting” (BEPS) multilateral regime in 2013. Nonetheless, several host countries hunting for revenue unilaterally adopted digital service taxes, and the US Trump administration responded with Section 301 tariff retaliation from 2019 to 2020. These countries, including France and the United Kingdom, did not reach an agreement on digital service tax with the US until the US Biden administration agreed to support the BEPS Two-Pillars Model in 2021. This paper identifies the factors influencing global compliance with the BEPS multilateral regime using a within-case study and the process-tracing method. First, based on the public goods argument, I claim that states are more likely to comply with the BEPS regime after the US shows support by restraining American digital MNCs from utilizing international tax loopholes. Second, the political leverage argument suggests that the US is more inclined to support BEPS after American digital MNCs express a preference for paying higher host country taxes instead of facing the uncertainty of unilateral digital taxes. The findings extend the analytical utility of hegemonic stability theory to scholarship on international taxation. Moreover, by focusing on firm-state interactions, this paper adds to the understanding of why a hegemon would initially withhold support from an international tax framework but ultimately acquiesce.
傳統國際關係研究在討論霸權的相關課題時,多是探索霸權相對權力優勢的消長,認為失去權力優勢的霸權,將難逃新興國家的挑戰,霸權交替萌起於無可避免的霸權戰爭。國關學界依順國際政治是一種權力競爭的思路,多是以物質權力作為評量霸權的基準,相對忽視權威暨治理正當性等因素在構成霸業的作用,進而忽略霸權領導的治理權威,霸權如何維繫霸業的討論,更限縮在有限的強制宰制,忽視正當性對強化霸權統御的作用。 本文試圖檢驗權威在霸權治理過程中所扮演的角色與作用,以..
IR studies on hegemony have paid much attention on the relative decline and uprising of powers, which has constituted the perspective that the factors of uneven-growth will cause the downfall of hegemony and the rising power will replace the old one after the former poses great challenges to the declining hegemon and wins the hegemonic war. Though the term of hegemony has deeply implied the characters of leadership, IR generally defines the hegemony as an international order within which one state constitute her dominance wit..
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