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 …

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 discusses the impact and the appropriateness of tax incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …) in the European Union. First, we provide a survey of implemented tax incentives specifically targeted at SMEs in the 28 … EU Member States. Building hereon, we measure the impact of these regimes on the effective tax burdens of targeted …

supply/demand model embedded in a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation model. We find that the reductions in net social … reduction of the social assistance withdrawal rate and an earnings-related tax credit. The expected employment and fiscal …

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 …

background, this paper puts forward a corporate microsimulation model allowing an ex-ante evaluation of tax reforms with regard … distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights … to supplement existing quantitative tax models by approaches apt for these issues of policy analysis. Against this …

background, this paper puts forward a corporate microsimulation model allowing an ex-ante evaluation of tax reforms with regard … distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights … to supplement existing quantitative tax models by approaches apt for these issues of policy analysis. Against this …

of the overall tax burden over per capita GDP. In average, an increase of 1 percent in the overall tax burden decreases …). Furthermore, additional econometric results pointed out that a revenue neutral fiscal policy which changes the tax structure …

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 …