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Optimal Income Taxation with Tax Competition

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  • Vilen Lipatov
  • Alfons Weichenrieder

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We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition reduces the distortion from the informational asymmetry and increases employment of the less productive individuals. When countries are heterogeneous, this effect is more pronounced in the smaller country.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 3108.

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Date of creation: 2010
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_3108

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Keywords: optimal income tax; migration; unemployment; tax competition; Leviathan government;

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