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| Title: | | Fiscal equalization and regions' (un)willingness-to-tax: Evidence from Germany  |
| Authors: | | Bönke, Timm Jochimsen, Beate Schröder, Carsten |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Economics working paper / Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Department of Economics 2011,06 |
| Abstract: | | Under cooperative federalism, when an identical tax tariff applies to all regions of a federation, usually redistribution rules are implemented to smooth fiscal differences. The administration of tax collection, however, is sometimes delegated to the regional level, leaving the regional administrations some discretion concerning the auditing of tax returns. Building on a stylized model, we show that under such conditions granted discretionary tax deductions at the level of tax units is positively related to state-specific marginal rates of loss (MRL), i.e., the fraction of an additional tax Euro raised in a region that the fiscal-equalization system redistributes to other jurisdictions. We empirically test the model's presumption using administrative income-tax micro data from Germany. Regression estimates comply with the implications of our model. |
| Subjects: | | Fiscal federalism rate of loss income tax returns |
| JEL: | | C21 H21 H77 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, CAU Kiel
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