Do Strategic Tax Interactions Exist between Local Authorities?
Jayet, Hubert
Do Strategic Tax Interactions Exist between Local Authorities? - 2002.
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This paper aims to demonstrate empirically the existence of strategic tax interactions between the decisions of local authorities in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. Our approach consists in calculating the gradient of the best-response function linking the rate of local business tax in one commune with the different rates in rival authorities by means of a spatial autoregression model. We show that in some cases the hypothesis of tax interactions is confirmed; local authorities do not set their local business tax rate freely but are influenced by the choices of neighbouring communes, especially in urban areas of employment.
Do Strategic Tax Interactions Exist between Local Authorities? - 2002.
63
This paper aims to demonstrate empirically the existence of strategic tax interactions between the decisions of local authorities in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. Our approach consists in calculating the gradient of the best-response function linking the rate of local business tax in one commune with the different rates in rival authorities by means of a spatial autoregression model. We show that in some cases the hypothesis of tax interactions is confirmed; local authorities do not set their local business tax rate freely but are influenced by the choices of neighbouring communes, especially in urban areas of employment.
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