We develop a behavioural micro simulation model (LuxTaxBen) that contains very precise information on income tax rules … model has been built specifically for analysing the Luxembourgish tax-transfer system whereby one can generate disposable … conditional on labour supply while income tax rules and the various welfare benefit-levels are complicated functions of earned and …

by a tax based on the same tax base as the proportional municipal income tax. -- Micro simulation ; tax-benefit system …This paper follows the theory of optimal taxation and the goal is to identify a tax/benefit design that maximizes … in the first stage, and the second stage identifies the tax/benefit system that maximize the social welfare function. Our …

-financed. -- Micro simulation ; tax-benefit system ; in-work tax credit reform …The purpose of SWEtaxben is to evaluate the impact of changes in the tax/benefit systems on households as well as the … central governmental budget. Relating to the micro simulation literature this model can be labeled a static micro simulation …

; welfare benefits ; tax credits ; incentive effects …In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a … free choice over their hours of work. We then consider fixed costs of work, the complications introduced by the benefits …

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 …

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the single most important transfer program in place in the United States. An …

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 …

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 …