Income from corporate and noncorporate firms is treated very differently under the tax law. To what degree do firms change their form of organization in response? Since the relative tax treatment depends on the tax bracket of the investor, the answer will vary by the bracket of the owners. To...

This paper uses a new data source to analyze the choice of organizational form of retail gasoline stations. In recent years, gasoline stations have tended to be less likely to be owned and operated by a lessee dealer and more likely to be owned and operated by the refiner. Critics have alleged...

The dual income tax provides the self-employed entrepreneur with huge incentives to participate in tax minimizing income shifting to have more of his income taxed as capital income. The Norwegian split model is designed to remove these incentives, but it contains loopholes. The present paper...

By double taxing the income of corporate firms but not unincorporated firms, taxes can play an important role in a firm's choice of organizational form. The sensitivity of the organizational form decision to tax rates can also be used to approximate the efficiency cost of the corporate income...

Die Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie verfolgt das Ziel eines ethischen und nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsmodells. Wirtschaften soll nicht allein der Gewinnmaximierung, sondern dem guten Leben für alle - dem Gemeinwohl - dienen. Doch lässt unsere Rechtsordnung ein gemeinwohlorientiertes Wirtschaften überhaupt...

Die Betriebsaufspaltung ist eine flexible Gesellschaftsform für Unternehmen. Haftungs- und Steuervorteile machen sie besonders für den Mittelstand attraktiv. Doch per Gesetz ist sie nicht geregelt – umso mehr aber durch ein kaum noch überschaubares, konfliktgeladenes Geflecht aus...