Tax Competition and Employment

State Capacity, Capital Mobility, and Tax Competition

Abstract The theory of international tax competition suggests that governments attempt to attract mobile capital bases by undercutting the foreign capital tax rate. An analysis of the role that state capacity plays in tax policymaking under international pressures is, however, missing. The central contribution of our study is to highlight the importance of the interaction between state capaci...

Disabled and the Employment Tax

Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in ‘new economic geography settings’ compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be maintained. The present paper reexamines this issue in a setting which, in addition to the core-peripher...

International Tax Competition and Coordination

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the theory of international tax competition. Starting with the standard framework, it visits the non-cooperative equilibrium of tax competition, analyses aspects of partial and regional coordination, repeated interaction, stock-flow-effects, agglomeration effects and time consistency issues in dynamic models. We discuss profit shifting in the...

Tax competition with parasitic tax havens

⁎ Corresponding author. Stephen M. Ross School of Bu 701 Tappan Street, Rm. R5396, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1 936 3914; fax: +734 936 8716. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Slemrod). 1 The OECD report distinguished tax havens from significant revenues from the income tax but have prefe kinds of income, generally restricted to non-residents; about the kind of tax haven covered by the OECD's def...