The DIW Berlin microsimulation model of business taxation BizTax allows a representative and detailed analysis of the fiscal and distributional effects of business taxation in Germany. The model is based on extrapolated individual local business tax files. We simulate essential elements of the...

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effective corporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany....

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage of corporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial...