article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

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We analyse tax revenue elasticities by applying dynamic models to a new disaggregated dataset for Germany, which is … adjusted for the effects of tax reforms. We estimate long-run elasticities that are substantially lower than in comparable … to tax base changes than other studies and a dynamic reaction pattern spanning several years, which can be explained, for …

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 …

In this study we investigate the relationship between religious and charitable giving. We test how income, the tax …-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving … church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between the church tax and charitable giving for church members, but not …

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 …

taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax … systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions generate externalities and (ii) deductions are responsive to tax rate … changes. While the first condition should arguably hold for almost any imaginable tax deduction, we provide a thorough …