Der bundesstaatliche Finanzausgleich als Säule eines Solidarsystems der jeweiligen (Bundes-) Länder untereinander steht derzeit in der Diskussion um eine mögliche Neugestaltung. Derzeit stehen 3 Geberländern 13 Nehmerländer gegenüber. Im Zuge einer Neuordnung des bundesstaatlichen...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert das Zusammentreffen von Progressionsvorbehalt und Besteuerung von außerordentlichen Einkünften. Bei dieser Fallkonstellation greifen mehrere Tarifvorschriften ineinander, so dass die Berechnung der gesamten tariflichen Einkommensteuer nicht trivial erscheint....

This paper addresses the question of how firms react to tax incentives in a formula apportionment (FA) tax regime. Under FA, profits of all consolidated entities of a business group are summed and then allocated according to a formula based on FA factors. We hypothesize that firms may change the...

In this paper we apply conjoint analysis as an empirical method to study the influence of tax labeling and tax earmarking on the perceived tax burden. As reference for the individual behavior we use the model of a rational utility maximizer described by the economic theory. We determine a...

We analyze the compliance costs of individual taxpyers resulting from the German income tax. using survey data that has been raised between December 2008 and April 2009, we find evidence for a considerably higher cost burden of self-employed taxpaxers. Taxable income and the demand for external...

Previous research argues that law expresses social values and could, therefore, influence individual behavior independently of enforcement and penalization. Using three laboratory experiments on tax avoidance and evasion, we study how legality affects individuals' decisions. We find that,...

In a real-effort laboratory experiment to manipulate evasion opportunities, we study whether the moral evaluation of tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the opportunity to evade taxes judge tax evasion as less unethical as...