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On the Economics of Contribution Evasion
Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim; Jansen, Marcus - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 65 (2009) 2, pp. 162-177
This paper considers the tax evasion decision when taxes constitute contributions to the financing of social insurance … programs, such as un employment insurance. We call this evasion contribution evasion and establish that critical differences … exist between contribution evasion and tax evasion, the central difference being that contributions entitle the contributor …
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The Influence of Altruistic Preferences on the Race to the Bottom of Welfare States
Hendel, Ulrich - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 70 (2014) 2, pp. 200-217
Common public-finance models suggest that tax competition between welfare states leads to a zero-taxation outcome in the absence of migration costs or other barriers to migration. This paper develops a two-region framework with mobile altruistic taxpayers and immobile welfare recipients. Tax...
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Reducing Social Contributions for Unskilled Labor as a Way of Fighting Unemployment: An Empirical Evaluation for the Case of Spain
Bajo-Rubio, Oscar; Gómez-Plana, Antonio G. - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 2, pp. 160-160
We provide an empirical evaluation of the effects of a cut in social security contributions (i) for all types of labor and (ii) only for unskilled labor, within a computable generalequilibrium model simulation of the Spanish economy. The model allows firms to follow a noncompetitive price rule,...
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Consumption-based Direct Taxes: A Guided Tour of the Amusement Park
Charles E. McLure, Jr.; Zodrow, George R. - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 2, pp. 285-307
Although consumption-based direct taxation has long been advocated in academic and policy circles, very few countries have actually implemented such taxes.This article provides an overview of alternative approaches to direct consumption taxation and examines arguments favoring consumption taxes...
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Financing social security by taxing capital income: A bad idea?
Kunze, Lars; Schuppert, Christiane - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 66 (2010) 3, pp. 243-262
This paper examines the growth effects of an increase of capital income taxes if the additional revenue is devoted to cutting wage-related social security contributions to reduce unemployment. The analysis is carried out in an overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth, unemployment,...
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Presumptive Taxation
Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 3, pp. 311-326
Most of the literature on presumptive taxation limits its application to the less-developed economies. In this paper I argue that presumptive taxes are well entrenched in the modern world, although usually not classified as such. Presumptive taxes can take many forms, and can be incorporated in...
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A Decomposition of the Personal Income Tax Changes in Italy: 1995-2000
Gastaldi, Francesca; Liberati, Paolo; Rapallini, Chiara - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 1, pp. 87-114
The effects of personal income tax changes are usually analyzed by comparing the inequality of income distributions before and after the tax policy change on a fixed pretax income distribution. This constant-population methodology aims at isolating the "pure" redistributive effect of the tax...
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Prospects for Consumption-Based Tax Reform in the United States
Zodrow, George - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 59 (2002) 2, pp. 264-264
It appears that the debate in the US regarding "fundamental tax reform", commonly defined as replacing the existing corporate and individual income tax system with some form of consumption-based taxation, is about to resume in earnest. At the current time, however, the chances for passage of...
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Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes
Boeters, Stefan - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 2, pp. 222-222
The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labor market. In this setting,...
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Environmental-tax financed Social Security Tax Cuts and the Double Dividend
Ono, Tetsuo - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 61 (2005) 2, pp. 178-178
This paper presents a two-period overlapping-generations model in which (i) firms create environmentally harmful emissions as by-products of production, and (ii) social security tax revenue from the working young is transferred to the retired elderly as pay-as-you go social security benefits. In...
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