Preferential tax regimes with asymmetric countries

Bucovetsky, Sam and Haufler, Andreas (October 2006): Preferential tax regimes with asymmetric countries. Discussion Papers in Economics 2006-30

Abstract

Current policy initiatives taken by the EU and the OECD aim at abolishing preferential corporate tax regimes. This note extends Keen's (2001) analysis of symmetric capital tax competition under preferential (or discriminatory) and non-discriminatory tax regimes to allow for countries of different size. Even though size asymmetries imply a redistribution of tax revenue from the larger to the smaller country, a non-discrimination policy is found to have similar effects as in the symmetric model: it lowers the average rate of capital taxation and thus makes tax competition more aggressive in both the large and the small country.

• Item Type: Paper (Discussion Paper)
• Keywords: corporate taxation, preferential tax regimes
• Subjects: Economics; Economics > Discussion Papers in Economics; Economics > Discussion Papers in Economics > Public Finance
• Dewey Classification: 300 Social sciences; 300 Social sciences > 330 Wirtschaft
• Journal of Economic Literature classification: H73, H25
• Language: English