Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145046 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6011
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper challenges the view that tax base equalization by the so-called Representative Tax System (RTS) removes inefficient undertaxation in corporate tax competition. The innovation of the paper is that it focuses on a tax on corporate income, instead of the unit tax on capital considered in previous studies. We employ a tax competition model with fiscal equalization and show that the RTS fails to fully internalize pecuniary and fiscal externalities. As consequence, the RTS yields inefficiently low tax rates in the Nash equilibrium of the tax competition game between governments. Tax revenue equalization performs even worse, but combined with equalization of private income it implements the efficient tax rates on corporate income.
Subjects: 
corporate income taxation
tax competition
fiscal equalization
JEL: 
H25
H71
H77
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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