Subventionen sind selektive Vergünstigungen, die Bund, Länder, Gemeinden und andere staatliche Einrichtungen zugunsten ausgewählter Produktionszweige und letztlich bestimmter Personengruppen gewähren. Ein umfassendes Bild des Volumens der Subventionen ergibt sich nur dann, wenn neben den...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

In recent years, a lot of rules concerning government expenditures as well as tax revenues were changed in Germany. Government expenditures in relation to GDP were reduced, income tax rates were lowered and the budget deficit declined. The structure of government expenditures changed in favor of...

The gross wage income distributions for different groups of taxpayers in 2004 are used to derive wage income distributions for 20072013. By applying the rules of income taxation, wage income tax revenues are deduced. Given the tax rate structure introduced in 2007, the average tax rates and the...

Die Bruttolohnschichtungen für die einzelnen Steuerklassen gemäß der Lohnsteuerstatistik 1998 werden anhand der Lohnentwicklung und der Entwicklung der Beschäftigtenzahl für die Jahre 2001 bis 2006 fortgeschrieben. Unter Anwendung des gegenwärtigen und des geplanten Steuerrechts wird das...