for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … part in the European Social Survey shortly before and after the event. We find that the tax day increases perceptions that … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception …

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 …

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 …

under various inflation scenarios. We develop a tax micro-simulation model for the newly available Panel on Household … Finance (PHF) data. The simulation yields an inverted U-shaped overall redistributive effect of the income tax and social … drag always enhances the equalising effect. The nominal income growth as well as the deterioration of tax progression at …

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax … examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … a large extent be offset by reductions in means-tested welfare transfers and high marginal tax rates. Taking into …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o … life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax … lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … literature is to allocate this expenditure proportionally to post-tax cash income. We show that the gap in post-tax income shares …