The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. Administration and compliance costs are reduced, as well as incentives for tax evasion. Furthermore, positive employment and growth effects are expected. Despite these advantages, a flat rate tax is not very popular in most...

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...

In Deutschland gibt es ein umfassendes Sozialsystem, das jedem Bürger einen Mindestlebensstandard sichert. Die Sozialleistungen umfassen 30 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes. Ein angemessenes Niveau der Sozialleistungen lässt sich aber nur sicherstellen, wenn sowohl das Marktsystem, in dem...

This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of Deutsche Bundesbank’s Foreign Direct Investment data (MiDi)...