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Pollution and Capital Tax Competition within a Regional Block

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Costas Hadjiyiannis
Panos Hatzipanayotou ()
Michael S. Michael ()

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The paper examines the interaction among taxes on factors income, environmental quality and welfare. We construct a two-country regional block model with capital mobility and cross-border pollution. Pollution in the two countries is simultaneously abated by the private sector, in response to a pollution tax and by the public sector utilizing income and pollution tax revenue. We demonstrate, among other things, that due to the existence of cross-border pollution in many cases the Nash optimal policy on capital income is a positive tax, even if taxes on the income of immobile factors are chosen optimally. This tax rate increases with the degree of cross-border pollution.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number CESifo Working Paper No. 1208.

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Keywords: optimal income taxes; public pollution abatement; cross-border pollution; capital mobility;

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F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation

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