In diesem Forschungsprojekt werden verschiedene Möglichkeiten einer Neukonzeption der Vermögensbesteuerung diskutiert. Die Vermögensteuer soll auf die Einkommen- oder Körperschaftsteuer anrechenbar sein und damit als Mindestbesteuerung wirken. Eine Simulation der Aufkommens- und...

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

Tax competition for the mobile factor capital has led to a trend in many countries to levy lower taxes on interest income, often introducing differential taxation between interest and business income. In this study, we analyze the effect of such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms....

This paper addresses the question of how firms react to tax incentives in a formula apportionment (FA) tax regime. Under FA, profits of all consolidated entities of a business group are summed and then allocated according to a formula based on FA factors. We hypothesize that firms may change the...