An analysis of the impact and paths of local tax competition on the quality of exported products

LI Chang-Qing

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Science Research Management ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (9) : 34-43.

An analysis of the impact and paths of local tax competition on the quality of exported products

Li Changqing^1,3, Peng Xin²

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China′s local governments′ performance target has changed from "competition for growth" to "competition for quality" under the background of supply-side structural reform, so local governments try to improve enterprise efficiency and product quality through tax competition. Although some scholars have studied the impact of tariff concession on the quality of export products from the national level, there is no literature on the impact of local tax competition on the quality of export products from the city level. Based on Chinese industrial enterprises database, China customs database and the statistical yearbook of Chinese cities, this paper empirically tests the impact of local government tax competition on exports quality of Chinese enterprises, and uses MP dynamic decomposition identity to decompose the quality of export products, and empirically tests the path of local tax competition affecting the quality of export products. Specifically, based on the data of China′s industrial enterprises, this paper calculates the tax competition indicators of enterprise income tax and value-added tax in 279 cities of China, and empirically tests the impact of local tax competition on the quality of export products and its mechanism by combining with the import and export data of China customs.
The conclusions are as follows: (1) Tax competition of local government can promotes regional export product quality; Through the IV estimation, replacing the tax competition variable and changing the estimation method, the results are still robust. (2) Compared with domestic enterprises, tax incentives for foreign enterprises can promote the improvement of regional product quality; compared with enterprises with lower productivity, tax incentives for enterprises with higher productivity can promote the improvement of export product quality; (3) The analysis of research mechanism shows that tax competition among regions can improve the productivity of enterprises, and then enhance the quality of export-products. In other words, inter regional tax competition promotes the quality of export products of local enterprises by improving the production efficiency of existing enterprises in the region (incentive effect), rather than attracting high-efficiency enterprises (migration effect).
Based on the empirical analysis, our suggestions are as follows: First, allow local governments to implement appropriate tax incentives. Empirical analysis shows that the overall effect of tax competition policy is positive, which can reduce the cost of enterprises and improving the quality of regional export products. Therefore, local governments should be allowed to take preferential tax policies to reduce the tax burden of enterprises and encourage existing enterprises to make innovation investment, so as to improve the quality of regional export products. Second, continue to allow tax incentives for high-tech industries. Considering the positive role of high-tech enterprises, local governments can be allowed to give appropriate tax preference to high-tech industries, and activate the competitive effect of the region by attracting high productivity enterprises to settle in, so as to improve the allocation efficiency of resources in the region; Third, allow the existence of moderately differentiated tax policies. Empirical analysis shows that tax competition has different impacts on domestic /foreign enterprises and on enterprises with lower /higher productivity, so local governments should be allowed to adopt differentiated tax policies moderately, so as to encourage enterprises with strong innovation ability or high productivity to promote the quality of local export products.

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tax competition / exported product quality / incentive effect

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Li Changqing, Peng Xin. An analysis of the impact and paths of local tax competition on the quality of exported products[J]. Science Research Management. 2021, 42(9): 34-43

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