Must losing taxes on saving be hannful?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Huizinga, Harry; Nielsen, Soren Bo
• 署名单位: Copenhagen Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.10.001
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1183-1192
• 关键词: capital income taxation; cross-ownership; COORDINATION

摘要

Internationalization offers enhanced opportunities for individuals to place savings abroad and evade domestic saving taxation. This paper asks whether the concomitant loss of saving taxation necessarily is harmful. To this end we construct a model of many symmetric countries in which public goods are financed by taxes on saving and investment. There is international cross-ownership of firms, and countries are assumed to be unable to tax away pure profits. Countries then face an incentive to impose a rather high investment tax also borne by foreigners. In this setting, the loss of the saving tax instrument on account of international tax evasion may prevent the overall saving-investment tax wedge from becoming too high, and hence may be beneficial for moderate preferences for public goods. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.