Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69531 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4076
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The tax competition for mobile capital, in particular the reluctance of small countries to agree on measures of tax coordination, has ongoing political and economic fallouts within Europe. We analyse the effects of introducing a two tier structure of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member states of a union choose a common, federal tax rate in the first stage, and then non-cooperatively set local tax rates in the second stage. We show that this mechanism effectively reduces competition for mobile capital between the members of the union. Moreover, it distributes the gains across the heterogeneous states in a way that yields a strict Pareto improvement over a one tier system of purely local tax choices. Finally, we present simulation results, and show that a dual structure of capital taxation has advantages even when side payments are feasible.
Subjects: 
capital tax competition
dual tier taxation
international unions
JEL: 
H25
H77
H87
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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