In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an … apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is … relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …

EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. We begin by presenting indicators for income inequality and at …-risk-of-poverty. We then provide a comparative decomposition of the redistributive effect of the tax-benefit systems across the EU. We … study how different Member States achieve various degrees of redistribution through different combinations of progressivity …

GSOEP data. In a microsimulation the present tax-benefit system with child benefit/allowance is replaced by a tax scheme …