Schellhorn, Hannes; Gottfried, Peter - 2004
In 1990 the German personal income tax schedule underwent a major change. We interpret this reform as a ?natural … experiment' and use a panel of individual income tax returns to analyze the response of income to changes in the individual tax … rates. Our results suggest an average elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate of around 0.4. Due to …