As a benchmark case, consider first the optimal tax policy with respect to the
tax rate and the tax base when firms are immobile.
3.4 Optimal tax policy with immobile firms
With Ah > A+, the welfare function becomes
W = U ^j У [F (1 - u) - (1 - au) K] dAdB^ +H ^j ʃ и (F
- aK) dAdB
(18)
with F = F (K, A, B) for simplicity, subject to
F(K,Al) (1 - и) - (1 - au) K = 0 (19)
for every given level of B. Figure 1 shows the two-dimensional profitability
space of the firms in the economy:

Figure 1: Immobile firms.
The firms in the shaded left bottom corner are not profitable enough and do not
produce. Firms in the white area do produce and can be taxed. Firms along the Al
frontier are indifferent between producing and leaving the market. By increasing
(lowering) the effective tax burden, the government shifts the Al frontier to the
lower left (upper right).
The optimality conditions with respect to u and a are:
10
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