We extend the WACC approach to a tax system having a firm income tax and a personal income tax of the investor as well. We use an artificial tax system incorporating most of the G-7 national tax codes as for example the classical or the imputation systems.

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact onnational labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum...

The principles of business taxation are governed by the Adam Smith’s fourth canon of taxation : ‘every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the treasury of the state’. However,...

This paper examines the impact of a major change in dividend taxation introduced in the UK in July1997. The reform was structured in such a way that the immediate impact fell almost entirely on thelargest investor class in the UK, namely pension funds. We analyse the behaviour of share...

This essay discusses the policy debate concerning optimal taxation and the distribution of income.It begins with a brief overview of trends in income inequality, the leading hypothesis to explain thesetrends, and the distribution of the tax burden. It then considers the framework that economists...

The nature of the seventeenth-century Mughal state and its land revenue taxation system has become a matter of controversy in recent years. Irfan Habib and his followers dominated thinking on this subject from the sixties onwards. They saw the regime as highly centralized and essentially...