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Optimal income taxation with tax competition

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  • Vilen Lipatov

    (Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • Alfons Weichenrieder

    (Goethe University Frankfurt, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and CESifo)

Abstract

We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal- taxation model with two skill levels and 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 e¤ect is more pronounced in the smaller country.

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  • Vilen Lipatov & Alfons Weichenrieder, 2012. "Optimal income taxation with tax competition," Working Papers 1207, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.
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    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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