Effects of Revenue Distribution and Income Distribution on the Impacts of Local Taxation

D W Jones and C R Morrow-Jones
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D W Jones: Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
C R Morrow-Jones: College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Environment and Planning C, 1984, vol. 2, issue 2, 135-148

Abstract: A computable equilibrium model of city government tax policy is constructed and analyzed for the impacts of taxes on all land and on capital, with four patterns of distribution of the tax revenue. Workers' utilities are exogenous. Choices of tax base and of tax distribution policy affect the extent of tax-exporting and the efficiency of tax collection, as does the distribution of landownership. Local land taxation is more efficient than local capital taxation, regardless of landownership patterns. A non-Tiebout theory of local government is implicit in the model, and interaction of government structure and choice of policies merits further study.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1068/c020135

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