Rietzler, Katja; Teichmann, Dieter; Truger, Achim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 12, pp. 864-871
The call for indexing the German income tax schedule to inflation in order to eliminate bracket creep has become widespread in the German tax policy debate. While it is indeed problematic that tax rates rise even when real incomes remain constant, the authors show that currently this is no...