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

dc.citation.firstpage767
dc.citation.issueNumber3S
dc.citation.journalTitleNational Tax Journal
dc.citation.lastpage802
dc.citation.volumeNumber68
dc.contributor.authorGugl, Elisabeth
dc.contributor.authorZodrow, George R.
dc.contributor.orgBaker Institute for Public Policy
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-01T15:40:10Z
dc.date.available2015-10-01T15:40:10Z
dc.date.issued2015
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.
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.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2015.3S.03
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/81859
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNational Tax Association
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.
dc.subject.keywordbusiness public services
dc.subject.keywordinfrastructure
dc.subject.keywordtax competition
dc.subject.keywordcapital taxes
dc.subject.keywordproduction taxes
dc.subject.keywordorigin-based VAT
dc.titleCompetition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?
dc.typeJournal article
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