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Who benefits from tax competition in the European Union?

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Leon Bettendorf ()
Joeri Gorter
Albert van der Horst ()

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Statutory tax rates have declined in the European Union in the recent decades. An applied general equilibrium model on corporate taxation sheds light on the economic and welfare implications of tax rate reforms. Domestic distortions proof highly relevant as even unilateral reductions of the corporate income tax rate might reduce welfare if the labour tax rate has to be increased. Profit shifting induces countries to underbid each others tax rates, but this effect is sizable only if two countries are closely linked. The harmful external effects of CIT rate reductions are limited, which reduces the need for European coordination of CIT rates.

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Paper provided by CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in its series CPB Documents with number 125.

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Keywords: corporate income taxation; tax competition; applied general equilibrium model;

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C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
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