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Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision...
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
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Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We … investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is … compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor …
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In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
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