Corporate Income Taxation of Multinationals and Fiscal Equalization

Caterina Liesegang (caterina.liesegang@ovgu.de) and Marco Runkel (marco.runkel@tu-berlin.de)
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Caterina Liesegang: Faculty of Economics and Management, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

No 9028, FEMM Working Papers from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management

Abstract: This paper investigates the e ect of scal equalization on the efficiency properties of corporate income tax rates chosen by symmetric countries in a Nash tax competition game under the taxation principles of Separate Accounting and Formula Apportionment. Fiscal equalization ensures efficiency if the marginal transfer just reects the scal and pecuniary externalities of tax rates. In contrast to previous studies, tax base equalization (Representative Tax System) does not satisfy this condition, but combining tax revenue and private income equalization does, regardless of which taxation principle is implemented. Under Formula Apportionment, tax base equalization is superior to tax revenue equalization if the wage income externality is suffciently large.

Keywords: Separate Accounting; Formula Apportionment; Fiscal Equalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H25 H71 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2009-08
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