Die Unternehmenssteuerreform III stellt das Schweizer Steuersystem auf ein neues Fundament. Auf Druck der OECD und der G20 soll die tiefere Besteuerung von ausländischen Unternehmensgewinnen in der Schweiz abgeschafft werden. Das Bassin lémanique ist Standort zahlreicher globaler Konzerne, die...

We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...

Die neue Regionalstudie der Credit Suisse fokussiert auf sechs Wirtschaftsregionen südlich des Juragebirges. Diese erstrecken sich über die Kantone Solothurn und Bern und umfassen die Achse Solothurn-Grenchen-Biel und die Satelliten Balsthal, Langenthal und Lyss. Trotz dem hohen Druck, der auf...

This paper proposes measures to quantify the effective level and the effective progressivity of taxation in a fiscally decentralized country taking income sorting into account. Using data on the universe of Swiss taxpayers, we find that rich households effectively face significantly lower...

This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three countries with heterogenous capital endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the coalition (i.e. full...

Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax competition as one reason for this decline in corporate tax levels. However, none of these studies explicitly asks the question whether tax competition within regions is...

An ongoing debate in the tax competition literature is the desirability for a system of countries, or regions, to restrict the preferential treatment of different forms of capital. A widespread belief is that without such restrictions, countries would aggressively compete for mobile capital,...

We present a multi-period model in which countries set source-based taxes with- out having precise information how their and their neighbours' tax rates affect the tax base. Countries can learn from past experience and from observing their neighbours' outcomes and/or tax policy choices. We...

This paper discusses trends in capital taxation and the role of the corporate tax rate in a welfare state. It provides a summary of the tax competition literature with special application to capital taxation in small versus large countries. A main finding from this literature is that small...

State borders create a discontinuous tax treatment of retail sales. In a Nash game, local tax rates will be higher on the low-state-tax side of a border. Local taxes will decrease from the nearest high-tax border and increase from the low-tax border. Using driving time from state borders and all...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten einer diskriminierenden Unternehmensbesteuerung und betrachtet dabei unter anderem die Optimalität eines solchen Steuersystems aus einer finanzwissenschaftlichen Perspektive.

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

Wenn das Finanzausgleichsgesetz zum Ende des Jahres 2019 außer Kraft tritt, ergibt sich eine historische Chance, die Reibungsverluste im gegenwärtigen Ausgleichssystem durch eine Neuordnung der Bund-Länder-Finanzbeziehungen zu verringern. Der Autor analysiert, in welchem institutionellen...

What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore cross-country spillovers of tax...

In this paper, the author analyzes the behavior of local governments in capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of the quality of public goods are made done by a central planner. More specifically, he asks the question of whether a local government has an interest in taxing the...