Tax competition and federal equalization schemes with decentralized leadership

Emilson Silva

International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, vol. 24, issue 1, No 7, 164-178

Abstract: Abstract Regional governments compete by setting capital taxes in anticipation of the central government’s fiscal equalization and income redistribution policies. I start by demonstrating that the constrained socially optimal allocation satisfies the Pareto efficient conditions; therefore, it may be first best. It is also shown that the subgame perfect equilibrium for the game played by regional and central governments is socially optimal. The anticipation of equalization of marginal utilities of public consumption and equalization of marginal utilities of private consumption provides regional governments with correct incentives in the setting of capital taxes, preventing the phenomenon known as “race to the bottom.”

Keywords: Fiscal equalization; Income redistribution; Capital tax competition; Decentralized leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 H2 H3 H4 H7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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