We develop a behavioural micro simulation model (LuxTaxBen) that contains very precise information on income tax rules … model has been built specifically for analysing the Luxembourgish tax-transfer system whereby one can generate disposable … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …

by a tax based on the same tax base as the proportional municipal income tax. -- Micro simulation ; tax-benefit system …This paper follows the theory of optimal taxation and the goal is to identify a tax/benefit design that maximizes … in the first stage, and the second stage identifies the tax/benefit system that maximize the social welfare function. Our …

-financed. -- Micro simulation ; tax-benefit system ; in-work tax credit reform …The purpose of SWEtaxben is to evaluate the impact of changes in the tax/benefit systems on households as well as the … central governmental budget. Relating to the micro simulation literature this model can be labeled a static micro simulation …

It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by … granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather … than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing according to expediency is, however, criticized by ordinary tax payers …

; welfare benefits ; tax credits ; incentive effects …In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a … free choice over their hours of work. We then consider fixed costs of work, the complications introduced by the benefits …

The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and …-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided by the tax systems and gauging the effects of tax changes taking … explicitly into account the possible substitution between factors as well as their tax incidence. Our results suggest that the …

determination than in tax determination. Apart from some simulation studies, theoretical studies of optimal tax design typically … Atkinson-Stiglitz and Chamley-Judd results, this article raises the issue of tax-favored retirement savings, a topic where the … two subjects come together. -- pension ; income tax ; social security …

a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of … contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a population of self-employed individuals. I exploit a unique total data … base over the Swedish population that covers the years 1999 to 2005. Using instrumental variables, I obtain a tax price …

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …