Volume 89, Issue 3 pp. 659-668

Single capital, investment choices and preferential tax regimes

Kosuke Oshima

Kosuke Oshima

Faculty of Information Science, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, 3-1, Gakuen Nishi-machi Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2188, Japan (e-mail: [email protected] )

The author thanks three anonymous referees for valuable comments. This work was supported by KAKENHI (19530295), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C).

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First published: 03 August 2010

Abstract

The assumption of separate tax bases on which the literature of preferential tax regimes has been based is not necessarily the case. In this paper we assume a single type of capital, or money, invested in different industries as well as in different countries. Tax elasticities can differ across industries depending on production technologies and therefore governments have incentives to provide preferential tax treatment to certain industries. Then it is shown that preferential regimes may not be desirable in different senses from the literature.

Resumen

La suposición de bases fiscales separadas en las que se ha basado la literatura de regimenes fiscales preferenciales no es necesariamente así. En este artículo asumimos un único tipo de capital, o dinero, invertido en industrias diferentes así como en países diferentes. Las elasticidades fiscales pueden diferir entre industrias dependiendo de las tecnologías de la producción y por tanto los gobiernos tienen incentivos para proporcionar un trato fiscal preferencial a ciertas industrias. Se muestra entonces que los regímenes preferenciales podrían no ser deseables en sentidos diferentes de los de la literatura.

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