
handle: 10230/554
It is difficult to justify tax incentives within the existing economics literature on tax competition. We develop a model in which communities are interested in attracting firms not only for their own capital but also for the "concentration externalities," a form of agglomeration economies, their location bestows on existing firms. We find that it is efficient in this case for communities to offer tax incentives, defined as a tax rate below the benefit tax level, to firms. We present the recent relocation of the Boeing Corporation's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago as a case study.
Tax incentives, concentration externalities, agglomeration economies, tax competition, benefit tax, concentration externalities, tax incentives, benefit tax, Macroeconomics and International Economics, tax competition, agglomeration economies, jel: jel:R1, jel: jel:R2, jel: jel:H2, jel: jel:H7
Tax incentives, concentration externalities, agglomeration economies, tax competition, benefit tax, concentration externalities, tax incentives, benefit tax, Macroeconomics and International Economics, tax competition, agglomeration economies, jel: jel:R1, jel: jel:R2, jel: jel:H2, jel: jel:H7
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