Floris Zoutman is Professor of Public Economics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. He received his PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2014. His research focuses on optimal taxation, political competition, and social insurance. His work has appeared in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Econometrica, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Public Economics. He is Deputy Director of the Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT) and Editor of the Nordic Tax Journal. He has been a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
Department of Business and Management Science, NHH
Main: Business Taxation
Secondary: Asset Management and Risk Analysis
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.
This summer, Floris Zoutman, Ivan Belik, and Geir D. Berentsen were promoted to full Professor at NHH.
The article "Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types" has been published in Theoretical Economics.
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, 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 Tax loop workshop at NHH this week: How to improve taxation of businesses and their owners.
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.
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.
By Steffen Juranek and Floris T. Zoutman has been published in the Journal of Population Economics.
By Steffen Juranek, Jörg Paetzold, Hannes Winner and Floris T. Zoutman is forthcoming in Kyklos.
