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The German government intends to fix the yearly income tax free subsistence level for a single in 1996 at an amount of 12.000 marks. Own calculations show a minimium of 13.000 marks. They also show that the planned level for the tax allowance for each child of 6.264 marks is sufficient at least...
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Aufgrund der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 25. September 1992 muß sich der Gesetzgeber ab 1996, nach einer Übergangsregelung bis 1995, zur Freistellung des Existenzminimums für einen neuen Einkommensteuertarif entscheiden. Einer großzügigen Bemessung des steuerfreien...
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Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
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Governmental activities in welfare states influence private charitable giving predominantly in two ways: (1) government spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives may boost private charitable giving. For a rich...
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subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but …
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This paper provides new evidence that taxes affect capital structure choice, using a unique and comprehensive panel data set which covers 86,173 German non-financial firms over the years 1973–2008. Following the Graham methodology to simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and...
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I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … Deutschland geschätzt. Basis für die Schätzung ist das umfangreiche Taxpayer-Panel, welches alle Steuermerkmale der Steuerzahler … in Deutschland für die Jahre 2001-2006 erfasst. Die Ergebnisse suggerieren, dass die permanente Steuerpreiselastizität …
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This paper investigates the inter-temporal loss usage of tax units in Germany. Tax units that experience a loss in a …
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