Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18980 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1516
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Tax competition is discussed as a source of inefficiency in international taxation and in fiscal federalism. Two preconditions for the existence of such effects of tax competition are that mobile factors locate or reside in jurisdictions with – ceteris paribus – lower tax rates and that taxes are actually set strategically in order to attract mobile production factors. It is well known from studies about Swiss cantonal and local income tax competition that Swiss taxpayers reside where income taxes are low. In this paper, empirical results on strategic tax setting by cantonal governments are presented for a panel of the Swiss cantons from 1984 to 1999. Completing the evidence on Swiss tax competition, the income tax rates in cantons are lower, the lower the tax rates of their neighbors.
Subjects: 
tax competition
strategic tax setting
personal income taxes
JEL: 
H71
H24
H73
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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