Does fiscal coopération increase local tax rates in urban areas?

Sylvie Charlot, Sonia Paty and Virginie Piguet ()
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Virginie Piguet: INRA UMR1041 CESAER, 26 boulevard Dr Petitjean, BP 87999, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France

No 1219, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience in urban municipalities. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the period 1993-2003 and an unbalanced data set. As predicted by the theory, we find that reducing the number of municipalities is likely to limit tax competition and, as a consequence, increase local business tax rates.

Keywords: fiscal cooperation; tax competition; vertical externalities; local business tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H3 H7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Working Paper: Does fiscal cooperation increase local tax rates in urban areas (2012)
Working Paper: Does fiscal coopération increase local tax rates in urban areas? (2012)
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