Das Buch untersucht die Grundlagen der Einkommensteuer. Dabei werden die Grundprinzipien der Besteuerung - Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz - herausgearbeitet. Das Lebenseinkommen wird als geeignete Bemessungsgrundlage für die Besteuerung dargestellt. Es kann durch die Summe der Jahreseinkommen bzw....

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...