Fiscalité locale et dynamique d'emploi des territoires : analyse empirique sur les communes françaises (Version preprint) A paraitre dans la Revue d'Economie Régionale et urbaine, 2021

Local taxation and capital expenditure are important levers available to local authorities to promote territorial development and economic growth. This article analyzes whether, and to what extent, the changes in employment computed at the municipal level are determined by the taxes that apply to businesses. To this end, it relies on French data structured by municipalities during the period 2011-2015, which begins when a profound reform of local business taxation took place. Our results show that the tax system has little or no influence on the fluctuations of employment, but that the latter are sensitive to the capital expenditure of municipalities. In part, they confirm the thesis that taxes locally collected are used to achieve expenditures that are beneficial to all production units in a territory.