With an empirical study of the results of the reduction in the income tax schedule by the German red-green government two suitable scales for an evaluation of distributional effects of tax policy are discussed: the redistribution of tax burden and the redistribution of income caused by the...

The income tax code of law (EStGB) of Paul Kirchhof (Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, retd.) is a proposal to reform the income tax and the corporate tax, which was much-noticed in politics and media. The article examines the taxation of shares under the EStGB. In particular effects on...

Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to appropriate data is still rather restricted and expensive for ad-hoc analyses, or individual data is often even not available at all. In this paper we take Germany and its data...