Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296137 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11048
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax rates. We find the mobility responses to wealth taxes are within the range of prior estimates with respect to income taxes. However, wealth tax mobility responses generate losses to personal income tax revenues that are six times larger than the direct losses to wealth taxes. Madrid could achieve higher total regional revenues by agreeing to a harmonized positive tax rate.
Subjects: 
wealth taxes
mobility
fiscal decentralization
fiscal federalism
tax coordination
JEL: 
E21
H24
H31
H73
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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