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Economic effects of VAT reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms : learning from the German tax reform 2008

Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2010

The German corporate tax reform of 2008 has brought about important cuts in corporate tax rates, which were at the same time accompanied by significant changes in the determination of the tax base for both major German corporate taxes - corporate income tax and trade tax. The reform followed the...

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Tax compliance under tax regime changes

Heinemann, Friedrich; Kocher, Martin - 2010

In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...

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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms : learning from the German tax reform 2008

Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2011 - This version: March 2011

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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : more employment and more inequality

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of shifting taxes from labor income to consumption on labor supply and the distribution of income in Germany. We simulate stepwise increases in the value-added tax (VAT) rate, which are compensated by revenue-neutral reductions in income-related taxes. We...

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Assessing the impact of introducing an ACE regime : a behavioural corporate microsimulation analysis for Germany

Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Spengel, Christoph - 2014

In their famous Mirrlees review (2011) on reforming the tax system for the 21st century, the authors put forward the introduction of an allowance for corporate equity regime. In recent years, several countries introduced an ACE regime. The main feature of an ACE regime is that it removes tax...

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Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme in Europa : eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der Region Oberrheingraben unter Einbeziehung aktueller Reformvorschläge

Eckerle, Tobias H. - 1997

schweizerischen auszugleichen. Dagegen wäre mit Umsetzung der Vorschläge zur "Großen Steuerreform 1999" in Deutschland eine derartige … geringsten wäre, wodurch der Standort Deutschland erheblich an Attraktivität gewinnen würde. Die Erhöhung der Körperschaftsteuer …

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Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in stochastic simulations : an application to fiscal policy simulations using an aggregate disequilibrium model of the West German economy 1960-1994

Franz, Wolfgang; Göggelmann, Klaus; Schellhorn, Martin; … - 1998

Different stochastic simulation methods are used in order to check the robustness of the outcome of policy simulations with a macroeconometric model. A macroeconometric disequilibriummodel of the West German economy is used to analyze a reform proposal for the tax system. The model was estimated...

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Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe : an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany

Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper the impact of the corporate tax systems of the 15 EU-member states on the investment and the financing decision of an US multinational corporation is analysed. The calculation of the resulting effective marginal tax rates (EMTR) closely follow the model of King and Fullerton. There...

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Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung

Spengel, Christoph - 2000

Das Steuersenkungsgesetz stellt das größte Reformvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der direkten Steuern in Deutschland seit der … internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen am Standort Deutschland, Stärkung der Attraktivität des Standorts Deutschland für … (King-Fullerton-Ansatz) für Deutschland und die übrigen EU-Mitgliedstaaten brachte folgende Ergebnisse. Die Reform erfüllt …

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