on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can … significant contradiction of value judgments within the German tax-benefit system. From the perspective of our paper, there is no … convincing justification for this inconsistency. -- horizontal equity ; family taxation ; distributive justice ; tax …

treatment of families by the aggregate tax and transfer system can be regarded as "fair", we compare the equivalent incomes of … evidence for a privileged treatment of families with children and a low market income due to the earned income tax credit (EIC …), the child tax credit and the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). If employment taxes are interpreted as …