A Tax on Tax Revenue: The Incentive Effects of Equalizing Transfers: Evidence from Germany

Christian Baretti, Bernd Huber and Karl Lichtblau

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Several recent studies suggest that equalizing transfers in a federal system may distort the tax policy decisions of states. We study this issue for the German federal fiscal system. In a simple theoretical model, we first identify a substitution effect and an income effect of equalizing transfers. Our main hypothesis is that both effects should tend to reduce tax revenue of German states. We perform various empirical tests which confirm this hypothesis.

Date: 2002
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Published in International Tax and Public Finance 6 9(2002): pp. 631-649

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