Are your firm’s taxes set in Warsaw ? Spatial tax competition in Europe

Karen Crabbé and Hylke Vandenbussche

No 2008050, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: Tax competition within the EU is fiercer than in the rest of the OECD with tax rates falling rapidly. This paper analyzes tax responses of EU-15 countries to corporate tax changes in the EU-10 new member states as a function of their proximity to these new member states. The average corporate tax rate in the new member states has always been considerably lower than the average in the EU-15 countries. Their entry into the EU eliminated capital barriers, allowing firms to locate in one of the new EU-10 with full access to the European Market. Our results indicate that EU-15 countries geographically closer to the new member states respond stronger to corporate tax changes in these new member states. We use a theoretical and a spatial regression framework to test the hypothesis that distance to a low tax region intensifies countries’ tax reaction functions.

Keywords: H25; H77; H39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2008-12-01
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Journal Article: Are Your Firm´s Taxes Set in Warsaw? Spatial Tax Competition in Europe (2013)
Working Paper: Are Your Firm's Taxes Set in Warsaw? Spatial Tax Competition in Europe (2009)
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