redistribution. The main tool for redistribution in the German tax system is the progressive income tax. The most important source of … funding for the church, the church tax, is directly linked to income. However, for top earners an alternative tax scale … applies. In most federal states the church tax is limited to a certain percentage of taxable income, a provision known as …

We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … one tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in …

A recent policy proposal suggests integrating the solidarity surcharge into the income tax tariff. The authors discuss … distributionally and revenue neutral is (almost) impossible. Such a reform would yield either an increased tax burden for at least some …

-amerikanische Earned Income Tax Credit und das deutsche Arbeitslosengeld II an. Die Autoren zeigen, dass das US-amerikanische Modell in …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential … mechanisms. We find that when choosing to redistribute income as a disinterested observer, women choose higher tax rates than men …

from small adjustments to paradigmatic shifts. The model presented here suggests an alternative reference value for tax … allocation. Introducing gross value added as an indicator for tax allocation offers several advantages. The process of splitting … up and ascribing the joint tax volume would be substantially facilitated. The calculated gap between the financial …

issue by estimating “unexplained” changes in tax and social contribution revenues, based on proxies for tax revenue bases … same exercise using alternative tax base proxies, either taken from forecasting models or on the basis of our knowledge of … the tax system in each country. The results show that, in the aggregate, revenue windfalls and shortfalls have exhibited a …

-financed government expenditures always exceed the induced increase in tax revenues. Apparently, the remaining deficits accumulate over …, tax rates above a certain minimum yield fiscal revenues greater than the initial deficit. Besides, the debt-to-GDP ratio …