Konferenzbeitrag

Cross-border or Online - Tax Competition with Mobile Consumers under Destination and Origin Principle

This paper studies the effect of an online retailer on spatial tax competition with mobile consumers. If taxation for online purchases follows the destination principle, in many cases, the entry of the online retailer mitigates tax competition. If taxation for online purchases follows the origin principle, the entry of the online retailer typically enhances tax competition. Cooperation between government reverses this effect. For sufficiently low (high) online shopping costs, welfare in the online retailer’s home country is higher under the origin (destination) principle, while welfare in the other country is higher under the destination (origin) principle. Global welfare is higher under the destination principle.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2018: Digitale Wirtschaft - Session: Taxation I ; No. A08-V1

Classification
Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Subject
tax competition
cross-border shopping
online retailer
destination principle
origin principle

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Birg, Laura
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2018

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  • Birg, Laura
  • ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 2018

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