Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation

This paper analyzes multi-stage taxation by provinces in a federal country, using a novel two-good, two-province, successive-oligopoly heterogeneous-product Bertrand competition model, where each producer is located in a province and sells its product through exclusive retailers located in both prov...

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Autores principales: Cont, Walter, Fernández Felices, Diego
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2016
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H71
H21
H22
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/65776
http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/doc108.pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
local indirect taxation
multistage taxes
tax icidence
tax competition
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H21
H22
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
local indirect taxation
multistage taxes
tax icidence
tax competition
H71
H21
H22
Cont, Walter
Fernández Felices, Diego
Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
local indirect taxation
multistage taxes
tax icidence
tax competition
H71
H21
H22
description This paper analyzes multi-stage taxation by provinces in a federal country, using a novel two-good, two-province, successive-oligopoly heterogeneous-product Bertrand competition model, where each producer is located in a province and sells its product through exclusive retailers located in both provinces. The producer-retailer setup allows provincial governments to raise taxes on upstream and downstream transactions. First, we analyze tax incidence results and emphasize the importance of the degree of downstream competition on the tax shifting. Second, we solve a non-cooperative revenue maximization problem and study the properties of the equilibrium taxes. We characterize the solution: either all tax rates are positive or one province drops one tax rate. This way, the full-tax solution dominates upstream and downstream taxation. Also, the non-cooperative solution implies over-taxation when compared with the cooperative solution.
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Fernández Felices, Diego
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title Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
title_short Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
title_full Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
title_fullStr Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
title_full_unstemmed Multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: Tax incidence and Leviathan taxation
title_sort multi-stage taxation by subnational governments: tax incidence and leviathan taxation
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