The popular idea of increasing the inheritance tax revenue via a tax-rate-cut-cum-base-broadening-policy is based on macroeconomic estimates. These models apply national wealth and life tables to assess the size of aggregate inheritance. Microeconomic estimates based on the German Inheritance...

The German Inheritance Tax Reform Act 2009 was caused by the jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court since the valuation procedures were not in line with constitutional requirements. However, similar to the criticized former law the new valuation procedures result in tax values widely...

On the basis of a substantial reduction of the corporate tax rate and the introduction of a preferential tax rate for retained profits for partnerships German tax reform act 2008 aims to improve the attractiveness of Germany for investment purposes. Furthermore a final withholding tax at a rate...