Das Buch untersucht die Grundlagen der Einkommensteuer. Dabei werden die Grundprinzipien der Besteuerung - Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz - herausgearbeitet. Das Lebenseinkommen wird als geeignete Bemessungsgrundlage für die Besteuerung dargestellt. Es kann durch die Summe der Jahreseinkommen bzw....

This paper studies household spending responses to anticipated changes in the consumption tax. To do so, I construct a life-cycle heterogeneous-agent general equilibrium model with durables. The model features a wedge in durable transactions that reflects the actual consumption tax system:...

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the...

This article intends to assess the various characteristics of just taxation in its moral, lawful and rational sense. It aims to correlate these characteristics in the context of political aspects, such as fiscal resistance and fiscal competitiveness in unrestrained economies as well as...