This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU … wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of … the firms in the sample. Our results suggest that due to border crossing loss-offset, the EU wide corporate tax base …

um 5 Prozentpunkte. Unsere Berechnungen ergeben, dass in der EU 38 % des proportionalen Einkommensschocks vom Staat … USA deutlich größer: 48 % in der EU und lediglich 34 % in den USA. Unter der Annahme, dass nur die Nachfrage … Einkommens zu einer Nachfragestabilisierung, die in der EU von 23 bis 32 % des Einkommensschocks reicht und in den USA 19 …

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 47 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … up to 31 per cent in the EU and up to 28 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic …

In this paper we propose a reform of the EU financing system. The two most important elements of our proposal are i) to … make the contribution of taxpayers to the EU budget more visible by showing an EU VAT share on receipts and ii) to increase … the power of the European Parliament in the determination of the structure of EU expenditures by limiting the multiannual …