“…In this study, the indirect method was based on Hines and Rice (1994), as firm-level information on intra-firm transfer prices for Lithuanian companies was unavailable. The current study continues our previous research of corporate tax avoidance in Lithuania (Kundelis & Legenzova, 2019;Kundelis et al, 2021). Our study is in line with Nicolay et al (2017), who was one of the first to construct an empirical study employing two empirical models: profit shifting via transfer pricing manipulation and debt shifting to test the substitution between those two channels.…”