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Title: | Should tax bases overlap in a federation with lobbying? |
Author: | Esteller Moré, Alejandro Galmarini, Umberto Rizzo, Leonzio |
Keywords: | Assignació de recursos Política fiscal Externalitats (Economia) Resource allocation Fiscal policy Externalities (Economics) |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IEB10/08] |
Abstract: | We examine the tax assignment problem in a federation with two layers of government sharing an elastic tax base, in which Leviathan policy makers levy an excise tax in an imperfectly competitive market and producers lobby for tax rate cuts. If the lobby of producers is very influential on policy makers, we find that taxation by both layers of government might be optimal, provided that the market of the taxed good is highly concentrated; otherwise, it is optimal to assign the power to tax only to one level of government. Taxation by both layers of government is not optimal either when the influence of the lobby is weak, whatever the degree of market power. We also examine a richer set of tax setting outcomes, by considering the possibility that state policy makers have heterogeneous tax policy objectives. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2010/08 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116652 |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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