Arbeitspapier

Capital tax competition with three tax instruments

The paper studies the role of capital mobility for efficiency of decentralized fiscal policies in a tax competition model where only a distorting wage, the residencebased and the source-based capital tax are available. We extend Bucovetsky and Wilson (1991) in deriving second-best taxation rules for small and large countries for each of the four possible combinations of tax instruments both in environments with an unconstrained and with a constrained set of tax instruments available to fiscal authorities. Whereas the model reproduces the result that countries underprovide local public goods in the absence of a residence-based capital tax, Nash equilibria are efficient in the two-tax cases if residence-based capital taxes but no source-based capital or else wage taxes are available. Moreover, aggregate production is situated on the world production frontier when the set of fiscal instruments is unrestricted.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie II ; No. 347

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Economic Integration

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eggert, Wolfgang
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universität Konstanz, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 - Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft
(wo)
Konstanz
(wann)
1997

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Eggert, Wolfgang
  • Universität Konstanz, Sonderforschungsbereich 178 - Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft

Entstanden

  • 1997

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