We investigate how personal income taxes affect the portfolio share of personal wealth that entrepreneurs invest in their own business. In a reformulation of the standard portfolio choice model that allows for underreporting of private business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in...

We investigate how comprehensive personal income taxes affect the portfolio share of personal wealth that entrepreneurs invest in their own business. Using detaild wealth information form waves 2002, 2007 and 2013 of the SOEP, we show that a fall in the tax rate may increase investment in risky...

Many countries levy local business taxes. In Germany, the ‘‘Gewerbesteuer‘‘ is the main source of local governments’ tax revenue. If there is local taxation of businesses, liberal professionals and farmers should not be treated differently from business enterprises, as it is the case...