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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration

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Amihai Glazer ()
Vesa Kanniainen ()
Panu Poutvaara ()

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We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the rich to reduce rents earned by absentee landlords. When the rich are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A race to the bottom need not appear.

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Paper provided by CESifo GmbH in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number CESifo Working Paper No. 1075.

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Keywords: taxes land rents property values migration redistribution

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H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
R21 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
R23 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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