Local authorities charge supply companies with concession dues on gas, water and electricity (Konzessionsabgaben), which are similar to some local taxes (local business tax, real property tax). These taxes have already been included in the fiscal equalization system and in the future concession...

Neben den eigenen Steuereinnahmen bestimmt der kommunale Finanzausgleich die finanzielle Situation der Gemeinden. Die Finanzzuweisungen des Landes erhöhen die Finanzkraft der kommunalen Ebene und bewirken eine gleichmäßigere Verteilung unter den Gemeinden. Der Beitrag analysiert den Einfluss...

Kommunale Abgaben in Form von Steuern, Gebühren und Beiträgen belasten die regionale Wirtschaft. Als Standortfaktor haben sie Einfluss auf An- und Umsiedlungsentscheidungen der Unternehmen auch im Mittelstand. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit regionale Belastungsunterschiede auf...

State and local taxation comprises those taxes that are collected at the sub-federal government levels in order to finance state and local public services, assigning discretion in the determination of rates and bases of these taxes to sub-federal governments. Consider a nation with different...

A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...

We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...

We study the tension between fiscal decentralization and progressive taxation. We present a multi-community model in which households differ in incomes and housing preferences and in which the local income tax rate is a function of an exogenous progressive tax schedule and an endogenous local...