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Tax Competition in an Expanding European Union

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  • Ronald B. Davies

    () (University College Dublin)

  • Johannes Voget

    () (Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation)

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This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, we use a simple model of tax competition to determine how a given country weights the taxes of others when choosing its own tax. This indicates that the market potential of a country (which includes both domestic consumption and exports) is the appropriate weight. This is an improvement on the ad-hoc and often endogenous weighting schemes used elsewhere. Unlike those studies, we find robust evidence for tax competition. In particular, our estimates suggest that EU membership affects responses with EU members responding more to the tax rates of other members. This lends credence to the above-noted concerns.

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Paper provided by Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation in its series Working Papers with number 0830.

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Keywords: Corporate taxation; Tax Competition; European Union;

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  1. You Can Pry our 12.5% Rate from our Cold, Dead Fingers
    by Ron Davies in The Irish Economy on 2010-11-15 12:41:17
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  1. Mauro Ghinamo & Paolo M. Panteghini & Federico Revelli, 2008. "FDI Determination and Corporate Tax Competition in a Volatile World," Working Papers 0802, University of Brescia, Department of Economics.
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  8. Crabbé, Karen, 2013. "Are your taxes set in Warsaw? Spatial tax competition in Europe," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/398229, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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