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Tax Competition and Public Input

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  • Agnès Bénassy-Quéré
  • Nicolas Gobalraja
  • Alain Trannoy

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This paper assesses the extent and policy implications of simultaneous competition among countries on both corporate tax rates and the provision of public goods used by firms as production factors (‘public factors’). First, we derive the relevant theoretical results in a unified framework where a corporate tax is used to finance a public good that raises both household utility and firm productivity. Then, the relevance of such simultaneous competition is tested using data on foreign direct investment from the US to EU member states. Both the theoretical analysis and the empirical results presented in this paper suggest that focusing on the tax side of the competition for the location of multinationals is misleading. It shows that there are grounds for the coexistence of high tax/spending countries and low tax/spending ones. Furthermore, provided multinationals are heterogeneous concerning their use of public factors, the competition for attracting them could take the form of a vertical or horizontal specialisation, whereby each government would seek to attract a certain type of activity through the adequate provision of certain public factors. In this framework, international competition could act as a vector for raising public-sector efficiency rather than as a standardisation factor.

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Keywords: Tax competition; Tax and budget policy; FDI; International Factor Movements;

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  1. Ramona Dumitriu, 2005. "Tax Competition regarding Foreign Direct Investment between Transition European Countries," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 1, pages 69-74, JUNE.
  2. Mohamed Hedi Bchir & Sébastien Jean & David Laborde, 2005. "Binding Overhang and Tariff-Cutting Formulas," Working Papers 2005-18, CEPII research center.
  3. Pantelis Kammas, 2009. "Strategic fiscal interaction among OECD countries," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2009_11, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
  4. Agnès Bénassy-Quéré & Véronique Salins, 2005. "Impact de l’ouverture financière sur les inégalités internes dans les pays émergents," Working Papers 2005-11, CEPII research center.
  5. Guillaume Gaulier & Françoise Lemoine & Deniz Ünal-Kesenci, 2005. "China’s Integration in East Asia: Production Sharing, FDI & High-Tech Trade," Working Papers 2005-09, CEPII research center.
  6. Neumann, Rebecca & Holman, Jill & Alm, James, 2009. "Globalization and tax policy," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 193-211, August.
  7. Pedro Gomes & François Pouget, 2008. "Corporate Tax Competition and Public Capital Stock," STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers 096, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.

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