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Three Essays In Regional Taxation, Kenneth Tester
Three Essays In Regional Taxation, Kenneth Tester
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation looks at the role that geographically limited taxation and the behavioral response of economic agents to different forms of regional taxation. While geographic taxation is typically thought to be confined to state and local taxes, federal tax policy can also create designated areas that receive preferential tax treatment. In this dissertation, both types of regional taxation are examined and are unified under common themes such as tax mobility and the definition of the tax base.
In chapter 2, I examine the important effect of how the location of high income earners employment is influenced by taxes in the …