At the end of the day money is going to land in someone's pocket. It'll be paid out as wages and dividends. A company will spend it on equipment, vendors and consumables. When money is retained, it'll get priced into shares and will get taxed (albeit indirectly) once a shareholder realizes a gain.
Corporations are really good at playing a tax minimization shell game. Big corporations are especially good. This leads to all sorts of nonsense like laundering profits through Bermuda and parking capital outside of the US. In the end all we end up doing is compounding the advantages of size to the disadvantage of smaller corporations. Meanwhile there's the added inefficiency of churning money into tax lawyers.
My expectation is that revenues would increase if we set the corporate tax rate to zero and reallocated the burden to personal taxes.
I'm not sure I see that happening.
1. Probably also the employees would make more and the customers would pay less for products as well. This has to do with something called tax incidence.
But naively speaking, what's the incentive for a corporation to increase employee pay in this scenario rather than just maximize shareholder value?
From my perspective, corporations already pay a lower effective tax rate and have access to tax avoidance strategies that not available to the individual.
I've read the argument that eliminating the corporate tax would spur growth but that's like saying eliminating individual income tax would spur consumer spending.