Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind: The Tax Agency's VAT claim against VG+ of half a billion NOK touches on the core of the VAT exemption for parts of the media market. Do we like the alternative?
Jarle Møen: In ten years, Karin Thorburn and her research group have not written a single sentence that could be used by a tax committee.
Øyvind Thomassen and Floris Zoutman: We tackled one of the countless claims Jøril Mæland and Karin Thorburn have made in DN, and have shown that they were wrong. Instead of admitting the mistake, they are covering it up.
Øyvind Thomassen and Floris Zoutman: A Norwegian investor is willing to pay the same as a foreign investor for a Norwegian company, despite the wealth tax.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: Jøril Mæland and Karin Thorburn have the burden of proof and must substantiate their claims.
Øyvind Thomassen: Have we got the party "Tina Brus Party for a strong reduction in tax on chains"?
Gunnar S. Eskeland: It's not just their tax money we want, is it?
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: Thore Johnsen and Terje Lensberg's arguments about wealth tax were refuted in 2016, proven to be logically inconsistent. There was never a response, so the line has been drawn and the error admitted. Now they are using them again.
Øyvind Thomassen: The debate about wealth tax in a nutshell is this: The rich know best.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: Wealth tax reduces investors' income, but at the same time it reduces investors' required return. The two effects offset each other, and Norwegian and foreign investors place the same value on the project.
The article "Designing Net Wealth Taxes – Challenges in Valuing Shares in Unlisted Companies" has been published in World Tax Journal.
Theresa Bührle and Elisa Casi: What may seem like a niche phenomenon on Facebook is a well-known problem for those of us who research tax and corporate structuring.
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The oil fund is a very vulnerable transfer of value to future generations. It may require both cowardice and musicality.
The article "Sensitivity versus size: implications for tax competition" has been published in Theoretical Economics.
The article "Playing easy or playing hard to get: When and how to attract FDI" has been published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
On Tuesday 12 August Costanza Maria Ludovica Cincotta will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Gunnar S. Eskeland: I think the state is too important, too powerful, to experiment on us, the voters and taxpayers, who are the superiors of the state.
On Thursday 26 June 2025 Henrik Svensli will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
The article "Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types" has been published in Theoretical Economics.
A new UK regulation was intended to make large companies more transparent about their tax practices. The result? More reporting and polished language, but not more real insight.
Nordic tax experts agree that we need an exit tax in times of mobility and instability. The devil is, however, as always in the details. How to design such a tax with a minimum unwanted side effects and distortions?
This week, NHH hosted the first joint workshop on Tax and Sustainability in collaboration with WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Mannheim.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: We should find out what it takes to lure tax refugees home before 2027. If we succeed, the community will earn 50 billion kroner – much more than we lose by letting them avoid wealth tax for life.
The article "Tax Strategy Disclosure: A Greenwashing Mandate?" has been published in Journal of Accounting Research.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The corporate tax rate must be raised to 28 percent if it is to finance the abolition of the entire wealth tax, and to over 30 percent if the combined corporate and dividend tax is to be kept at the current level.
The article "Investigative journalism: Market failures and government intervention through public broadcasters" has been published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Gunnar S. Eskeland: Martin Bech Holte believes that the oil wealth has weakened our interest in creative owners who put capital and ability to change at their disposal at their own risk. It is a debate we should certainly have.
Petter Bjerksund, Arnt Ove Hopland and Guttorm Schjelderup: Calculation of tax costs necessarily requires data for tax and income, and we only get such data after the tax has been paid. A forward-looking, speculative method does not strengthen the tax debate.
Petter Bjerksund, Arnt Ove Hopland and Guttorm Schjelderup: If we remove the wealth tax, the effective tax is greatly reduced for the rich. For an investor, the tax drops from 21 percent to 15 percent just by assuming that the share capital is unlisted, not listed.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: Menon's "summary of knowledge" is tax propaganda. It polarises the debate, undermines NHO's reputation and prevents a tax policy compromise that could give companies stable tax framework conditions.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: Although there are good arguments for the wealth tax to be reduced, there are not as good arguments for the corporation tax to be raised.
The very wealthiest benefit from a far lower effective tax burden compared to those earning slightly less, a new study shows.
This week, NoCeT hosted the Conference on Tax Transparency, a gathering of international experts, policymakers, and industry leaders to tackle the global challenge of tax avoidance and evasion.
Petter Bjerksund, Guttorm Schjelderup and Floris T. Zoutman: Menon's tax report for NHO misleads readers. It inflates the importance of wealth tax and sets up calculations that falsely double the effective average tax rate.
The article "Auctioning Long-Term Projects under Financial Constraints" has been published in Review of Economic Studies.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: Founders and small businesses deserve a tax debate that puts innovation at the centre, not a debate where the richest families get to dictate the terms.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: Why are there so few in the public debate who care about tax relief for all?
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: It is not a good idea to remove the exemption method. But we can improve shareholder taxation by treating losses and gains from share sales equally, as well as raising the shielding rate.
When the 4th Norwegian Symposium on Tax Accounting gathered in Bergen recently, hosted by NoCeT and NHH, professor and organizer Maximillian Todtenhaupt said the event have fulfilled its purpose of bringing together some of the best researchers globally on tax accounting.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss and Magne Mogstad: The time is overdue for a critical review of the exemption method. But it is difficult to get a good debate going when there is NOK 3,100 billion on the opposite side of the debate.
Two NHH researchers were among the winning initiatives selected to receive Engage.EU seed funding to create platforms for knowledge exchange.
The government seeks a new law on defense and security procurement to enable Norway to acquire defense materials more quickly.
The article "Optimal platform pricing with multi-sided users: A direct and indirect network approach" has been published in European Journal of Operational Research.
Ten percent of the Norwegian population does not visit the dentist, often due to financial constraints. Today, the Dental Health Committee will present its NOU, which highlights potential solutions.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: The Conservative Party and NHO want "old ladies with some wealth" to pay wealth tax, while the very richest should be exempt.
Around 20 international PhD students gathered in Bergen this week to attend the course “EEU551 The Real and Reporting Effects of Business Taxation”.
We are having fewer and fewer children in this country, which could pose problems in the long term. Now, a new expert committee will look into whether there are measures that can reverse the trend.
Guttorm Schjelderup: My NHH colleagues Jøril Mæland and Karin Thorburn want to remove wealth tax and are concerned with distribution. But they do not propose alternative and equally effective proposals for redistribution.
The Tax loop workshop at NHH this week: How to improve taxation of businesses and their owners.
On Friday 26 April 2024 Thomas Lange will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Exemptions from VAT on repairs and second-hand goods have been a hot topic recent years. Now, NHH Professor Jarle Møen joins the committee that will examine VAT reductions for reuse.
Self-employed women underreport their income to the tax authorities more than men do; a new study shows. `We should perhaps reconsider assumed gender differences in this field´, says NHH researcher Julie Brun Bjørkheim.
Jarle Møen: The term zero tax payer should be out of the debate.
How to provide a good and fair healthcare service within the resources available to Norway? The expert group, with Professor Kurt Brekke as a member, has assessed the consequences of increased transparency about the Norwegian government's willingness to pay.
Since Spring 2021, the tax researchers at NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Boston University Questrom School of Business meet once a month digitally and discuss a tax-related research project.
The article "The global minimum tax raises more revenues than you think, or much less" has been published in Journal of International Economics.
The article "Royalty taxation under tax competition and profit shifting" has been published in Canadian Journal of Economics.
Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman has been promoted to professor in the field of tax and public economics, and economics of crime.
The article "The unintended consequences of semi-autonomous revenue agencies" has been published in Canadian Journal of Economics.
`Historically, we see a movement towards greater economic and political equality. I believe there is reason to be optimistic, said Thomas Piketty, giving this year's Sandmo Lecture at NHH.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The real tax rate is 20 percent of the company's profit this year for a typical investor with a large fortune in a wholly owned, unlisted company. It is lower than under the Stoltenberg government.
Once a year, the representative of the tax authorities from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden meet to discuss the latest on the taxation of dividend income. This year, they met in Stavanger on May 23, 2023 and for the first time they invited researchers for one day workshop around the topic of dividend tax arbitrage.
Thomas Piketty gives «The Sandmo Lecture on Public Policy» on Friday 9 June at NHH Norwegian School of Economics.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: NRK's tax debate is based on meaningless assumptions: All returns in the "Tangens oil fund" go to the "household budget" and must therefore be tax-free. Is the tax really the problem, not the withdrawal?
Petter Bjerksund, Guttorm Schjelderup and Floris T. Zoutman: Total tax on owners and companies in Norway is 13.5 percentage points higher than in the countries with which we should compare ourselves. Norway is on the wrong track.
Øyvind Thomassen: Two companies, Flikk and Flakk, produce electric car chargers and must invest NOK one billion each. Flikk's owner lives in Switzerland, Flakk's owner in Norway. Does Flakk have a disadvantage that prevents profitable growth?
The Fridtjof Nansen award for young researchers 2023 goes to NHH Professor Katrine V. Løken. She receives the prestigious prize for her excellent research in economics.
The influx of rich Norwegians into Switzerland is increasing. New calculations clearly show that this is about exploiting a tax loophole to avoid paying the bill for deferred income tax.
On February 8, 2023 NHH and NoCeT had the pleasure to welcome Magnus Andresen as guest lecturer for the master courses “Taxes and Business Strategy” and “Personal Finance and Taxation”.
In 2022, Alexander Willén received NOK 8 million in funding through the Researcher Project for Young Talents. Read his tips about the application process.
For many of us, it would probably be a good idea to tighten our belts. But do we have to? And what about those who can’t tighten their belts any further? So asks Victor Norman in the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: It creates a dynasty effect where wealth accumulates among the few.
Ola Kvaløy, Jarle Møen and Ragnar Torvik: The Norwegian Tax Commission is proposing a reform that will make it more worthwhile to work, especially for those with fairly low wages or high wages.
Last week the EU Court Justice made a striking decision. The court says that a 2018 directive intended to mandate the collection and exchange of information about cross-border tax arrangements, violates the lawyer-client confidentiality.
Andreas Olden: If the Norwegian Tax Administration sends out a behavior oriented letter, we can almost count the impact in terms of the difference in kroner and øre that comes in as tax money after the letters.
Currently, tax transparency ranks high on governments’ agenda as being one of the key policy tools to reduce tax avoidance and evasion. This week NHH and SNF arranged a conference on tax transparency.
Associate Professor Morten Sæthre has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project «Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy: DEEP».
Gunnar S. Eskeland: The oil tax package is the story of a state which, in miserable, nocturnal proceedings on additional taxes, cannot take care of itself, but gives away the people's money to special interests, apparently without getting anything in return.
European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action has funded the research project TAXFAIR that aims to provide a knowledge-based framework for governments and policymakers around the world to implement an effective system for the automatic exchange of information.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The high-price tax will give us less clean power in both the short and long term. It is a textbook example of how a tax should not be launched.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The fixed price scheme has now got a loophole which makes it most profitable for the power producers to offer fixed price agreements to the customers who need it the least.
The article "The triple difference estimator" has been published in the September issue of the Econometrics Journal, as the editor's choice of lead article. Editor’s choice-articles are published as open access.
Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup: The power producers' description of reality and arguments characterize the government's proposal for changes in power taxation. The proposal may have unintended effects that weaken competition and the power market itself.
The article "Withholding Taxes, Compliance Cost, and Foreign Portfolio Investment" has been published in Accounting Review.
Assistant Professor, Elisa Casi-Eberhard, was among the speakers at the first high-level policy event organized by the EU Tax Observatory on June 13, 2022, in Brussels.
Master thesis by Marcus Andersen Holte and Sander Sivertsvoll.
On Friday 17 June 2022 Andreas Olden will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
The Tax commission of Høyre, the Norwegian Conservative Party, visited NHH on 20 May.
The article "Taxation and the external wealth of nations: Evidence from bilateral portfolio holdings" has been published in Journal of International Money and Finance.
By Petter Bjerksund and Guttorm Schjelderup has been published in Samfunnsøkonomen.
Research project by Casi, Mardan & Muddasani funded by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research.
LSE-professor John Van Reenen gives The Sandmo Lecture On Public Policy on Friday 29 April. Title of his lecture: "Inequality and Superstar Firms"
The article "Aggressive Tax Planning and Labor Investments" has been published in Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance.
Mohammed Mardan has been promoted to professor in the field of Business Economics.
Trond Døskeland: The Oil Fund's active return is positive, but it is small - NOK 170 billion since 1998, according to the analysis we have done for the Ministry of Finance.
The article "Thinking outside the box: The cross-border effect of tax cuts on R&D" has been published in Journal of Public Economics.
Øyvind Thomassen: The central banks are involved in a poker game where they have bluffed at least since the financial crisis. And they dare not do anything but raise in each round.
Øyvind Thomassen: If house prices ever fall considerably that will lead to an economic decline. Will the government save highly leveraged homeowners?
Øyvind Thomassen: Wealth tax is not significant when it comes to financing of new projects. The exception is small firms that have to finance investments with own funds.
Øyvind Thomassen: The extremely expansive monetary policy causes that income is mainly determined by how much you already have. The risk is that the support of the market economy disintegrates.
