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 …

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 …

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 …

, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue (fiscal neutrality), the effects of various hypothetical tax … to the current tax-transfer systems. The exercise can be considered as one of empirical optimal taxation, where the … basic income (Universal or Participation Basic Income) and adopting progressive tax-rules. If – besides the fiscal …

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 …

[psi]MOD ; microsimulation ; tax and benefit systems ; labor demand …This paper describes IZA[psi]MOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The …-employee dataset LIAB. IZA[psi]MOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax reform on the …

The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The … describes details of the Polish tax and benefit system and the simulation assumptions which were necessary in modelling it in … model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is …

; 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 …