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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens - 2020
The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...
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The Pass-Through of Temporary VAT Rate Cuts : Evidence from German Supermarket Retail
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021
identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …
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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes Toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021
Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...
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Who Bears the Burden of Real Estate Transfer Taxes? Evidence from the German Housing Market
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...
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Corporate Profit Shifting and the Role of Tax Havens : Evidence from German Country-by-Country Reporting Data
Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, Florian - 2021
annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not … covered by the CbC data yields an overall estimate for profits shifted out of Germany to tax havens of EUR 19.1 billion per … year, corresponding to 4.3% of the profits reported by these firms in Germany. This implies a tax revenue loss due to …
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Expected Effects of the US Tax Reform on Other Countries: Global and Local Survey Evidence
Boumans, Dorine; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2019
companies. The effects on investment in Germany are ambiguous: While some firms substitute between investment locations, others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018182
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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021
Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582087
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Eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform der 620-DM-Arbeitsverhältnisse
Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 78 (1998) 11, pp. 645-651
Gegenwärtig wird eine Abschaffung bzw. Einschränkung der 620-DM-Beschäftigungsverhältnisse diskutiert. Dr. Clemens Fuest und Professor Bernd Huber analysieren die möglichen Auswirkungen für den Arbeitsmarkt und das Sozialsystem und schlagen alternativ eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform...
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Das Vollanrechnungsverfahren ist nicht mehr zeitgemäß
Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 80 (2000) 6, pp. 351-355
An der beschlossenen Unternehmensteuerreform wird vor allem die Einführung des Halbeinkünfteverfahrens bei der Dividendenbesteuerung kritisiert, das an die Stelle des bisherigen Anrechnungsverfahrens tritt. Ist diese Kritik berechtigt?
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Steuerliche Probleme von Mitarbeiter-Aktienoptionen
Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 3, pp. 155-158
Seit einigen Jahren setzen auch deutsche Unternehmen zunehmend Aktienoptionen als *" Entlohnungsinstrument ein. Wie werden Aktienoptionen gegenwärtig steuerlich behandelt? Besteht im Zuge der Steuerreform ein steuerpolitischer Handlungsbedarf?
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