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 …

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model …-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax-benefit reform on … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …

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We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal … (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic … income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial. The rule is applied to total taxable household income. A …

We analyse tax revenue elasticities by applying dynamic models to a new disaggregated dataset for Germany, which is … adjusted for the effects of tax reforms. We estimate long-run elasticities that are substantially lower than in comparable … to tax base changes than other studies and a dynamic reaction pattern spanning several years, which can be explained, for …

taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax … systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions generate externalities and (ii) deductions are responsive to tax rate … changes. While the first condition should arguably hold for almost any imaginable tax deduction, we provide a thorough …

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 …

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …