This book appeals to a wide segment of the academic and professional market. It will appeal to accounting and finance professors and students because the main theme of the book deals with accounting and financial system reform. It will appeal to economists in the subfields of transition...

This book analyzes the economic principles of modern corporate taxation. It is novel in two respects. First of all, it analyzes not only the effects of taxation on firms' marginal choices, but also focuses on the impact of taxation on discrete choices, such as plant location, R and D investment,...

Company taxation is an important element for the establishment and the completion of the Internal Market. Against this background, the European Commission recommends the harmonisation of the tax base in the European Union. Carsten Wendt analyses the necessity, the concept as well as potential...

Relevance of the European Company in practice -- Taxation of European Companies during the time of restructuring in an ideal environment -- Taxation of European Companies during the time of restructuring in the current environment -- Taxation of European Companies during the time of...

Academic research shows that well-known principal-agent and capital market problems are strongly influenced by tax considerations. Against this background, this volume is the first to present a fully-fledged overview of the interdependence of tax and corporate governance. Not only the basic...

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax reform for helping the...

Einführung -- Grundlagen der Untersuchung -- Die Zugriffsbesteuerung des § 15 AStG -- Einwirkungen des Gemeinschaftsrechts auf das Zugriffssystem ausländischer Familienstiftungen -- Einwirkungen des Verfassungsrechts auf das Zugriffssystem ausländischer Familienstiftungen -- Ansätze für...

This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property...

This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform

Steuerreformkonzepte -- Steuerreformkonzepte im Überblick -- Reformen Der Einkommens- und Unternehmensbesteuerung: Aufkommens-, Verteilungs- und Arbeitsangebotswirkungen -- Verteilungswirkungen und Reformkonzepte der sozialen Sicherung -- Aufkommens- und Verteilungseffekte der Besteuerung von...