 Tax interactions among Belgian municipalities: Do interregional differences matter?Marcel Gerard (), Hubert Jayet and Sonia Paty Post-Print from HAL Abstract: This paper tests the existence of strategic interactions among municipalities, based on a panel of Belgian local tax rates from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the interregional differences in Belgium. Our results partly confirm previous findings for Belgium suggesting that municipalities interact over the local surcharge on the (labor) income tax rate but not on the local surcharge on the property tax. Using spatial econometrics tools and an original methodology for specifying weight matrices, we find that municipalities are sensitive to the local income tax rates set by only their closest neighbors. We cannot reject the hypothesis that interregional differences matter for municipalities belonging to the Brussels region: for the local income tax rate, the intensity of interactions is shown to be higher between municipalities belonging to the Brussels region than between municipalities belonging to different regions. Keywords: Tax interactions; panel data; spatial econometrics; local tax rates; tax competition (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010, 40 (5), pp.336-342. ⟨10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.03.010⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00597389 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.03.010 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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