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

I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …

This paper investigates the inter-temporal loss usage of tax units in Germany. Tax units that experience a loss in a … year can offset that loss with positive income from adjacent year to receive a tax refund. Similar to companies, tax units … can employ losses as carry-back in the year before the loss or as carry-forward in the year following the loss. The tax …

Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation …, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a general concern that the tax expenditures … negatively affect the budget and tax policies, which in turn affect the transparency, efficiency, and equality of the fiscal …

The tax structure is important for the income distribution and therefore a key playground for redistributive politics …. The standard theory assumes that more unequal income distribution will create a majority for more redistribution (Meltzer … and Richard). This study investigates the empirical validity of this relationship in a microeconomic study of the tax …

attract mobile tax bases from abroad. Are such agreements likely to discourage tax competition or conversely cause it to … spread? We study a general model of competition for multiple tax bases and establish conditions for a restiction on … preferential regimes to increase or decrease tax revenues. Our results show that restrictions are most likely to be desiderable …

This paper examines the effects of management practices on effective tax rates (ETR) in a sample of medium and large … manufacturing firms in Ecuador. We use a novel data set on management practice scores matched with administrative tax data from the … Superintendence of Companies and the Internal Revenue Services of Ecuador based on firms' tax filings. We find that better management …