Dhammika Dharmapala

American tax economist

Dhammika Dharmapala

Born|

Anurudha Udeni Dhammika Dharmapala

1969 or 1970 (age 54–55)

Sri Lanka

Academic career
Field| Public economics
Institutions| University of Chicago Law School, University of Illinois
Alma mater| University of Western Australia (BEc, MEc)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Doctoral
advisor| Alan J. Auerbach
Contributions|

* Corporate tax
* Tax havens
* Corporate tax havens
* Base erosion and profit shifting

Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website| Faculty website

Dhammika Dharmapala (born 1969/1970)[1] is an economist who is the Paul H. and Theo Leffman Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is known for his research into corporate tax avoidance, corporate use of tax havens, and the corporate use of base erosion and profit shifting ("BEPS") techniques.[2]

## Biography

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Dharmapala was born in Sri Lanka, educated in Australia, and settled in the U.S. (he is a naturalized U.S. citizen),[3][4] to pursue a career as an academic economist.[1] He taught economics at the University of Connecticut and law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before joining the Chicago faculty in 2014.[5]

Dharmapala's research on tax havens, often with James R. Hines Jr., is cited as important.[6][7] In addition to his role as professor at the University of Chicago Law School, Dharmapala is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and has served on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association and the National Tax Association.[8] Dharmapala is sometimes interviewed in the main U.S. financial media on U.S. corporate tax issues.[9][10][11]

## Dharmapala tax havens

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See also: Tax haven

### Dharmapala-Hines 2009 list

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Because it is cited as one of the important papers on the research of tax havens,[6][12] the 48 jurisdictions from the Dharmapala-Hines 2009 paper are listed below, per the markings in the paper (♣ & †):[13]

6 of the 7 tax havens that Dharmapala-Hines identified in 2009, but which have never appeared in any OECD list (e.g. marked as †), namely, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland, would become ranked in the world's top ten global tax havens, when academics used quantitative methods to analyse tax havens (i.e. the "OECD havens", plus Singapore and Hong Kong).[14]

1. Andorra
2. Anguilla
3. Antigua and Barbuda
4. Aruba♣
5. Bahamas
6. Bahrain
7. Barbados
8. Belize
9. Bermuda
10. British Virgin Islands
11. Cayman Islands
12. Channel Islands
13. Cook Islands
14. Cyprus
15. Dominica
16. Gibraltar
17. Grenada
18. Hong Kong†
19. Ireland†
20. Isle of Man
21. Jordan♣
22. Lebanon♣
23. Liberia
24. Liechtenstein
25. Luxembourg†
26. Macao†
27. Maldives
28. Malta
29. Marshall Islands
30. Mauritius♣
31. Monaco
32. Montserrat
33. Nauru♣
34. Netherlands†
35. Niue♣
36. Panama
37. Saint Kitts and Nevis
38. Saint Lucia
39. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
40. Samoa♣
41. San Marino♣
42. Seychelles♣
43. Singapore†
44. Switzerland†
45. Tonga♣
46. Turks and Caicos Islands
47. Vanuatu
48. Virgin Islands (U.S.)♣

(†) Tax havens that were in the 41 from the Hines-Rice 1994 list, but not in the 35 from the OECD 2000 list (the largest),[15] which include the four "OECD tax havens".[14]
(♣) Tax havens that were in the 35 from the OECD 2000 list (the largest),[15] but not in the 41 from the Hines-Rice 1994 list.

## Bibliography

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* Dharmapala, Dhammika (2017). The Economics of Tax Avoidance and Evasion. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1785367441.

## See also

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* Economy portal
* Companies portal

* Mihir A. Desai
* James R. Hines Jr.
* Gabriel Zucman
* Base erosion and profit shifting
* Tax haven
* Double Irish, Single Malt, and CAIA, BEPS tools

## References

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1. ^ a b "Illinois Law Professor Stabbed In Throat At Train Station". Pravi Hearald. 19 December 2011. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018. "CHAMPAIGN – University of Illinois Law Professor Dhammika Dharmapala , a Hindu from Sri Lanka and a naturalized U.S. citizen, was the victim of a shocking violent attack this week at a train station. [..] Dharmapala, 41, teaches law and economics, tax policy, public economy, and political economy. [..] Professor Dharmapala earned his master's degree in economics from the University of Western Australia and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley."
2. ^ "Making Sense of Profit Shifting: Dhammika Dharmapala". Tax Foundation. 14 May 2015. "Professor Dharmapala is recognized as one of the leading experts on profit shifting, through his innovative research on the magnitude of profit shifting and his recent survey of the empirical profit shifting literature."
3. ^ Dawinder Sidhu (16 December 2011). "A Decade After 9/11, Ignorance Persists". Albuquerque Journal.
4. ^ Mary Schenk (16 June 2014). "Updated: Fithian man sentenced to 20 years for 2011 knife attack". The News-Gazette. "Dharmapala, a U.S. citizen [..]"
5. ^ "Dhammika Dharmapala | University of Chicago Law School".
6. ^ a b Vincent Bouvatier; Gunther Capelle-Blancard; Anne-Laure Delatte (July 2017). "Banks in Tax Havens: First Evidence based on Country-by-Country Reporting" (PDF). EU Commission. p. 50\. "Figure D: Tax Haven Literature Review: A Typology"
7. ^ Sébastien Laffitte; Farid Toubal (July 2018). "Firms, Trade and Profit Shifting: Evidence from Aggregate Data" (PDF). CESifo Economic Studies: 8. "Concerning the characterization of tax havens, we follow the definition proposed by Hines and Rice (1994) which has been recently used by Dharmapala and Hines (2009)."
8. ^ "Dhammika Dharmapala Leaves Illinois for Chicago". TaxProf. 1 August 2014.
9. ^ "Trump talks a lot about the 'forgotten man,' but so far he's just helping Wall Street". The Washington Post. 11 February 2017.
10. ^ "Why Cash Returning From Overseas Isn't Likely to Create Jobs—and Might Even Reduce Them". The Wall Street Journal. 16 December 2017.
11. ^ "GOP Goes With the Global Flow: Tax People, Not Companies". The Wall Street Journal. 1 November 2017.
12. ^ "IDEAS/RePEc Database". "Tax Havens by Most Cited"
13. ^ Dhammika Dharmapala; James R. Hines Jr. (2009). "Which countries become tax havens?" (PDF). Journal of Public Economics. 93 (9–10): 1067. "Appendix A: List of Tax Havens"9–10&rft.pages=1067&rft.date=2009&rft.au=Dhammika+Dharmapala&rft.au=James+R.+Hines+Jr.&rft_id=http://faculty.smu.edu/millimet/classes/eco6375/papers/dharmapala%20hines.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Dhammika+Dharmapala" class="Z3988">
14. ^ a b Francis Weyzig (2013). "Tax treaty shopping: structural determinants of FDI routed through the Netherlands" (PDF). International Tax and Public Finance. 20 (6): 910–937\. doi:10.1007/s10797-012-9250-z. S2CID 45082557. "The four OECD member countries Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium and Switzerland, which can also be regarded as tax havens for multinationals because of their special tax regimes."
15. ^ a b "Towards Global Tax Co-operation" (PDF). OECD. April 2000. p. 17\. "TAX HAVENS: 1.Andorra 2.Anguilla 3.Antigua and Barbuda 4.Aruba 5.Bahamas 6.Bahrain 7.Barbados 8.Belize 9.British Virgin Islands 10.Cook Islands 11.Dominica 12.Gibraltar 13.Grenada 14.Guernsey 15.Isle of Man 16.Jersey 17.Liberia 18.Liechtenstein 19.Maldives 20.Marshall Islands 21.Monaco 22.Montserrat 23.Nauru 24.Net Antilles 25.Niue 26.Panama 27.Samoa 28.Seychelles 29.St. Lucia 30.St. Kitts & Nevis 31.St. Vincent and the Grenadines 32.Tonga 33.Turks & Caicos 34.U.S. Virgin Islands 35.Vanuatu"

## External links

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* Dhammika Dharmapala, PROFILE: National Bureau of Economic Research
* Dhammika Dharmapala, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, Chicago University Law School

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* Australia
* Netherlands
* Norway

People|

* DDB