Search costs and corporate income tax competition

Konrad, Kai A. (2011): Search costs and corporate income tax competition. Working Papers / Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, 1103

Abstract

This paper studies corporate tax competition if it is costly to learn some of the elements that determine the e¤ective tax burden. Search cost may, but need not, eliminate the tax competition pressure. The outcome depends on the boundaries of tax rate and tax base choices. Search cost can explain the empirically observed tax cuts cum base broadening.

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• Item Type: Paper
• Keywords: Costly search; tax competition; corporate Taxation; monopoly pricing paradox
• Faculties: Economics > Chairs > MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• JEL Classification: H70, H87
• Language: English