Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination

David Agrawal, Dirk Foremny and Clara Martínez-Toledano

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, vol. 17, issue 1, 402-30

Abstract: We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times larger than the direct losses to wealth taxes. Madrid could achieve higher total regional revenues by agreeing to a harmonized positive tax rate.

JEL-codes: D31 G51 H24 H71 H73 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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