Competition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?

dc.citation.firstpage767en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3Sen_US
dc.citation.journalTitleNational Tax Journalen_US
dc.citation.lastpage802en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber68en_US
dc.contributor.authorGugl, Elisabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorZodrow, George R.en_US
dc.contributor.orgBaker Institute for Public Policyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-01T15:40:10Zen_US
dc.date.available2015-10-01T15:40:10Zen_US
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough most of the tax competition literature focuses on the provision of local public services to households, several papers analyze tax competition when capital taxes are used to finance local public services provided to businesses, examining the conditions under which such services are provided efficiently, under-provided, or over-provided. In addition, several prominent observers have noted that “benefit-related” business taxation is desirable on both efficiency and equity grounds and argued that such taxation should take the form of a tax based on production, such as an origin-based value-added tax. We evaluate this contention in this paper, comparing the relative efficiency properties of these alternative business taxes. Our simulation results suggest that under many, but not all, circumstances it is more efficient to finance business public services with an origin-based production tax rather than a source-based capital tax.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGugl, Elisabeth and Zodrow, George R.. "Competition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?." <i>National Tax Journal,</i> 68, no. 3S (2015) National Tax Association: 767-802. http://dx.doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2015.3S.03.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2015.3S.03en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/81859en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherNational Tax Associationen_US
dc.rightsThis is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the National Tax Association.en_US
dc.subject.keywordbusiness public servicesen_US
dc.subject.keywordinfrastructureen_US
dc.subject.keywordtax competitionen_US
dc.subject.keywordcapital taxesen_US
dc.subject.keywordproduction taxesen_US
dc.subject.keywordorigin-based VATen_US
dc.titleCompetition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpost-printen_US
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