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The Use of SME Tax Incentives in the European Union
Bergner, Sören - 2017
This paper discusses the impact and the appropriateness of tax incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union. First, we provide a survey of implemented tax incentives specifically targeted at SMEs in the 28 EU Member States. Building hereon, we measure the impact...
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The Impact of Personal and Corporate Taxation on Capital Structure Choices
Overesch, Michael - 2008
This paper empirically analyses whether both personal and corporate taxation have an impact on companies' capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structures. Our empirical results, based on a comprehensive panel...
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The Effective Tax Burden of Companies and on Highly Skilled Manpower : Tax Policy Strategies in a Globalized Economy
Elschner, Christina; Lammersen, Lothar; Overesch, Michael; … - 2015
Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...
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What Drives Giving in Extensive Welfare States? The Case of Germany
Borgloh, Sarah - 2009
Considerable empirical research exists on donations in the US and their determinants, including estimations of the income and price elasticity of giving. By contrast, less is known about the determinants of countries with an extensive welfare state. We address this deficiency by studying the...
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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2014
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...
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Philanthropy in a Secular Society
Bittschi, Benjamin - 2016
In this study we investigate the relationship between religious and charitable giving. We test how income, the tax-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving church and non-church members. We find crowding in between...
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Economic Effects of Vat Reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2008
quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has … only negligible redistributive effects. Instead, reduced VAT are found to act as industry-specific subsidies. Whereas the … overall welfare effects of pure VAT reforms are very small, a revenue-neutral introduction of a harmonised VAT combined with …
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Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?
Dolls, Mathias - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income : A Meta-Regression Analysis
Neisser, Carina - 2017
The elasticities of taxable (ETI) and broad income (EBI) are key parameters in optimal tax and welfare analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis of elasticities that measure behavioral responses to income...
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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower
Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2008
A model is presented for simulating the tax burden on highly skilled manpower. The effective average tax rate, defined as the relative wedge between total remuneration and disposable income, is computed. Income and payroll taxes and social security contributions not yielding an equivalent...
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