Migration and tax yields in a devolved economy

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Households may migrate between jurisdictions to secure preferred mixes of collectively sup-plied services and taxation. But devolution of taxes to sub-national jurisdictions could reduce expected tax revenue if some move to lower tax regimes, constraining devolved government policy. This paper develops an indirect approach to establish lower bound tax revenue impacts of possible tax changes by devolved governments. We estimate and aggregate migration responses to existing tax differentials between smaller, component administrative areas of the devolved jurisdictions. Because such existing taxes may have different bases from proposed devolved taxes, appropriate corrections are made in a model of the devolved economy. This model also establishes how the tax base and therefore the tax yield of the devolved economy, as well as the output per capita, would be changed by implementing different tax rates, given the migration responses estimated. The model is used to assess the fiscal possibilities for Wales created by the UK Government of Wales Act 2014.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Cardiff Economics Working Papers ; No. E2016/7

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence ; State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue ; State and Local Budget and Expenditures ; Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
• Subject: Migration ; Fiscal Decentralisation ; Tax Revenue

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Foreman-Peck, James S. ; Zhou, Peng
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
• (where): Cardiff
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174120
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET