This paper presents Distributional National Accounts (DINA) for Germany from 1992 to 2016. We combine personal income tax files with SOEP survey data to estimate the distribution of national income following the DINA method established by Piketty et al. (2018). We find that economic growth in...

Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the...

This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on "Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems" (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? - Distributional Analyses of the German tax...

Basic income benefits cover recipients' actual heating expenses as long as they are not unusually high. In contrast, their electricity expenses are only covered via a lump sum at the standard rate. Thus, basic income recipients have weaker incentives for reducing their heating expenses than for...

In der Regierungskoalition wird eine Abschaffung des ermäßigten Mehrwertsteuersatzes diskutiert. Umstritten ist, ob die Steuerermäßigungen für Grundnahrungsmittel und Kulturgüter erhalten bleiben sollen. Simulationsanalysen des DIW Berlin zeigen, dass die Mehrwertsteuer auf Nahrungsmittel...

Die Abschaffung des ermäßigten Mehrwertsteuersatzes wird derzeit wieder diskutiert. Eine solche Reform würde einkommensschwache Haushalte deutlich stärker treffen als Haushalte mit mittleren und hohen Einkommen. Diesen Verteilungswirkungen könnte ein Mehrwertsteuer-Bonus gezielt...

In der Steuerpolitik wird in letzter Zeit die Ausweitung von "Reichensteuern" diskutiert. Unter diesem Schlagwort wird meist die höhere Besteuerung des Einkommens von Spitzenverdienern verstanden, zuweilen aber auch die stärkere Belastung von Vermögen. Eine Anhebung des...

The first ever gender-specific analysis of income and tax distribution in Germany has been implemented using the most recently available data on personal income tax statistics from 2007. According to its findings, the average income of women is only half that of men. This income gap is less...

Overall monetary redistribution via the tax and transfer system leads to net incomes being much more evenly distributed in Germany than market income. As a result, in 2011, the Gini coefficient decreased from 0.5 for market income to 0.29 for household disposable income. The social security...

Overall monetary redistribution via the tax and transfer system leads to net incomes being much more evenly distributed in Germany than market income. As a result, in 2011, the Gini coefficient decreased from 0.5 for market income to 0.29 for household disposable income. The social security...