When do small countries win tax wars?

This article analyzes the conditions under which the smaller of two otherwise identical countries prefers the noncooperative Nash equilibrium to a situation of fully harmonized tax rates. A standard two-country model of capital tar competition is extended by allowing for transaction costs additional countries, and additional tar instruments. The effects of introducing either mobility costs or a wage tar instrument are theoretically ambiguous because they lower both the costs and the benefits of noncooperation from the perspective of the small country. Numerical simulations indicate, however; that for a wide range of parameter values, all model extensions considered reduce the possibility that the small country gains from tar competition.