INTERNATIONAL TAX COMPETITION AND DOUBLE TAXATION |
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Authors: | Tomoya Ida |
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Institution: | Faculty of Economics, Oita University, Oita, Japan |
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Abstract: | This paper examines international tax competition, with respect to both corporate income tax rates and tax rules for double taxation. Unlike existing studies, this study assumes that governments set non-discriminatory tax rates on domestic- and foreign-sourced corporate income and can choose no tax allowance as the tax rule. Consequently, the Nash equilibrium outcomes contradict the intuition underlying previous studies: no tax allowance is chosen as the tax rule where world economic welfare can be maximized. A capital-exporting country gains whereas a capital-importing country loses, compared to the case where there is a tax allowance of any kind. |
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