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    Tax Competition Reconsidered

    Dhillon, Amrita
    Wooders, Myrna
    Zissimos, Ben
    : http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15809
    : 2006

    Abstract

    In a classic model of tax competition, we show that the level of public good provision and taxation in a decentralized equilibrium can be efficient or inefficient with either too much, or too little public good provision. The key is whether there exists a unilateral incentive to deviate from the efficient state and, if so, whether this entails raising or lowering taxes. A priori, there is no reason to suppose the incentive is in either one direction or the other.
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