In the process of furthering EU integration little attention was given to the role of income taxes. Multiple income tax systems exist across the Union and their differentiation negatively impacts the European labour market, investments and savings, inhibiting economic growth. Individual nations...

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently proposed an interest barrier to fight tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). We use the introduction of such an interest deductibility restriction in Germany as a quasi-experiment and find significant corporate...

The present publication is concerned with the process of thin capitalisation in the countries of OECD. Two methods for financing companies are discerned in relation to this phenomenon, i.e. debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences of the method of equity financing of companies are...

The following paper explores the issue of thin capitalisation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. There are two methods used by financing companies that are strongly related to this phenomenon: debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences...

Die Analyse von Steuerwirkungen in konkreten Wachstumsmodellen ist ein noch vergleichsweise junges Forschungsfeld. Ziel des Buches ist es zu zeigen, dass mit dem Mitte der 80er Jahre von Hans-Werner Sinn entwickelten Modell ein Referenzrahmen für die Wachstumsanalyse von Steuern vorgelegt...