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Pareto Efficiency in International Taxation

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Michael Keen (IMF)
David E. Wildasin (University of Kentucky)

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This paper addresses a key but neglected task in the theory of international taxation, lent increased urgency by growing awareness of the potential gains from tax coordination: the characterization of Pareto-efficient international tax regimes. It shows that the Diamond- Mirrlees theorem on the desirability of production efficiency, which underlies the key tenets of policy advice in international taxation--- the desirability of destination basis for commodity taxation, of the residence principle for capital income taxation, and of free trade---is rendered inherently inapplicable to problems of international tax design by the distinctness of national budget constraints that is of the essence in thinking about international taxation. Conditions are established---relating to the availability of explicit or implicit devices for reallocating tax revenues across countries---under which production efficiency is nevertheless desirable, and a general characterization developed of the precise ways in which Pareto efficient international taxation may require violation of established tenets.

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