Key parameters for the modeling of public finances are tax revenue elasticities with respect to tax bases. Yet the existing studies estimating these elasticities for emerging countries disregard the effects of tax reforms on tax revenue, which renders their estimates inconsistent. We use a...

Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to appropriate data is still rather restricted and expensive for ad-hoc analyses, or individual data is often even not available at all. In this paper we take Germany and its data...

UNIVERSITÄT POTSDAM WIRTSCHAFTS- UND SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FAKULTÄT FINANZWISSENSCHAFTLICHE DISKUSSIONSBEITRÄGE Revenue and Distributional Effects of the Current Tax Reform Proposals in Germany – An Evaluation by Microsimulation von Christhart Bork Hans-Georg Petersen Diskussionsbeitrag...