Titel:The tax and the mighty: Tax payer concentration lowers local business taxation in German Municipalities
Autor:Bischoff, Ivo
Weitere Verfasser:Krabel, Stefan
Veröffentlicht:2012
URI:https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0158
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-01589
ISSN: 1867-3678
DDC:330 Wirtschaft
Publikationsdatum:2024-01-03
Lizenz:https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0

Dokument

Schlagwörter:
tax competition, yardstick competition, Germany, large firms, local business taxation

Summary:
We analyze the impact of large firms on business tax rates using data from German mu-nicipalities in Hesse in 1998-2005. Results suggest that business tax rates decrease with tax-payers’ concentration, indicating strong local lobbying power of large firms.


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