If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers … less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries … use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand tax competition if the size of the group of loyal and non …

With (automatic) exchange of tax information among countries now common, tax evaders have had to find new ways to hide … probability that their tax evasion is detected through information exchange. Using data on cross-border bank deposits, we find … that deposits in tax havens increase after a country starts offering a citizenship-by-investment program, providing …

show that taxation of rents may also increase utility of the current generation provided tax revenues are earmarked to … reduce wage taxes. In particular, a shift in the tax mix may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement when the initially … prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation …

Tax legislation, fiscal authorities, and tax courts create tax uncertainty by frequent tax reforms and various … different interpretations of the tax law. Moreover, investors generate model-specific tax uncertainty by using simplified models … that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a …