The taxation of high-income earners is of importance to every country and is the subject of a considerable amount of recent academic research. Such high-income earners contribute substantial amounts of tax and generate signifi cant positive spillovers, but are also highly mobile: a 1% increase...

The well-known "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) establishes the superiority of decentralized public provision over the centralized case, which is not so sensitive to the diversity of expenditure needs among territories. We test this hypothesis using a unique Spanish database that...

In 1969, Shoup postulated that the presence of interrelated taxes in a tax system would reinforce the tax penalty system ("self-reinforcing penalty system of taxes"). In this paper, we have tried to formally develop this idea. We find that in order for tax reinforcement to be maintained, it is...

By means of a dynamic panel data analysis, and using a database from municipalities of the province of Barcelona (1993-99), we describe their process of fiscal adjustment to a shock in tax capacity. About 25% of the shock is internalized through an increase in tax effort, 35% through a reduction...

In a decentralised tax system, the effects of tax policies enacted by one government are not confined to its own jurisdiction. First, if the tax base is mobile, tax rate increases by one regional government will raise the amount of taxes collected by other regional governments (horizontal tax...

. El actual sistema de financiación autonómico confiere a las CCAA de Régimen Común un importante nivel de autonomía tributaria. Este trabajo realiza un esfuerzo en estudiar desde 1997 los principales cambios legales llevados a cabo por parte de las CCAA, y se plantea qué razones pueden...

. El objetivo de este trabajo es obtener la composición óptima de la cesta impositiva para cada una de las CCAA, principal reforma que se prevé introducir en el nuevo sistema de financiación autonómico. La optimalidad de esta cesta se obtiene a través de combinar la maximización del...