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The development of corporate tax structures in the European Union from 1998 to 2015 - qualitative and quantitative analysis

Bräutigam, Rainer; Spengel, Christoph; Stutzenberger, … - 2017 - This version: August 2017

Ongoing tax reform processes, competitive pressures and the consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis have considerably shaped the tax systems of the Member States of the European Union in the last two decades. Our paper combines a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the...

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The use of SME tax incentives in the European Union

Bergner, Sören Martin; Bräutigam, Rainer; Evers, … - 2017

This paper discusses the impact and the appropriateness of tax incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union. First, we provide a survey of implemented tax incentives specifically targeted at SMEs in the 28 EU Member States. Building hereon, we measure the impact...

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Tax harmonisation in Europe : the determination of corporate taxable income in the EU member states

Oestreicher, Andreas (contributor); … - 2007

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we want to examine whether and if so, to what extent, the concept of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) meets the requirements of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) for the EU-wide activities of multinationals as proposed by...

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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU … domestic energy or carbon taxes will abate inefficiently much while other firms within the EU ETS will benefit from lower … international emission permit prices. The same logic disproves the argument that additional national emission taxes will reduce …

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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany

Büttner, Thiess (contributor); … - 2006

Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will enhance efficiency. A system of...

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EU company taxation in case of a common tax base : a computer-cased calcualtion and comparison using the enhanced model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph; Stetter, Thorsten; … - 2005

Within the EU the relation between financial and tax accounting will be significantly influenced by the regulation adopted in June 2002 that obliges all listed companies to prepare their consolidated accounts according to International Accounting Standards / International Financial Reporting...

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Costs, preferences, and institutions : an empirical analysis of the determinants of government decentralization

Stegarescu, Dan (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the factors determining vertical government structures. An empirical analysis for a panel of OECD countries indicates that apart from preferences, economies of scale, and other factors, institutions explain cross-national differences in the degree of fiscal decentralization....

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Intergovernmental grants and public input provision : theory and evidence from Germany

Hauptmeier, Sebastian (contributor) - 2007

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...

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How can a country ‘graduate’ from procyclical fiscal policy? : evidence from China

Fuest, Clemens; Xing, Jing - 2015

In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of total government spending. By employing both time-series and province-level panel data,...

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Vertical income tax externalities and fiscal interdependence : evidence from the US

Esteller-Moré, Alejandro; Solé-Ollé, Albert - 1999

.S. federal system in practice and that formally link the taxes employed at various levels of government (i.e.: tax deductibility …). The developed hypotheses are tested with data corresponding to the U.S. personal income taxes for the last decade. We find … that when the federal government increases taxes, there is a significant positive response of regional taxes. …

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