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 …

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … comprehensive view and include not only direct taxation and cash benefits, but also indirect taxes and in-kind transfers. We look at … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

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 …

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 …

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 …

, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a … younger and older parties, older left-wing parties are more likely to internalize the long-run costs of redistribution and to … be more credible in their commitment to redistribution, leading them to redistribute less. With entirely different data …

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 …

This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are …