 Commodity taxation with non linear pricing oligopolyFrançois Boldron No 2002039, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Abstract: This paper studies commodity taxation when firms use two-part tariffs in model of competition A la Hotelling. Three kinds of taxes are considered: a specific tax, an ad valorem one on the subscription fee and an ad valorem one on the per usage fee. We first derive the equilibrium tariffs, market shares and profits. We show that the tax on the subscription fee is profit neutral (unlike the other two) but socially costly (like the other two) as it modifies the consumption choice of the consumers. In a context of costly public funds the ad valorem taxation on the variable fee dominates specific taxation. Moreover, the ranking between ad valorem taxation on the fixed fee and an ad valorem taxation on the variable fee depends on the relative magnitude of economic parameters, in particular the degree of differentation. Finally, we show that the government might prefer the use of two-part tariffs rather than the use of more general tariffs. Keywords: two-parts tariffs; commodity taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:2002039 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC. |
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