Arbeitspapier

Tax Principles and Tax Harmonization under Imperfect Competition: A Cautionary Example

This paper shows that under imperfect competition the welfare effects of indirect tax harmonization may depend crucially on whether taxes are levied by the destination or the origin principle. In a standard model of imperfect competition, while harmonization always makes at least one country better off, and may be Pareto-improving, when taxes are levied under the destination principle (which currently applies in the European Union), harmonization of origin-based taxes (as recently proposed by the European Commission) is certain to be Pareto-worsening when the preferences in the two countries are identical, and is likely to be so even when they differ.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 518

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Harmonization
destination principle
origin principle
commodity taxation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Keen, Michael
Lahiri, Sajal
Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2001

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Keen, Michael
  • Lahiri, Sajal
  • Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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