In der steuer- und finanzpolitischen Diskussion wird seit Wochen darüber gestritten, ob und wann die Lohn- und Einkommensteuer gesenkt werden soll. Die Frage nach der Notwendigkeit steuerlicher Entlastungen kommt dabei allerdings oftmals zu kurz. Wie dringlich solche steuerlichen Entlastungen...

Das Institut hat wiederholt dargelegt, dass es seit 1990 zu deutlichen Belastungsverschiebungen bei der Einkommensbesteuerung gekommen ist. Verlierer der bis 2005 erfolgten Tarifkorrekturen waren demnach eindeutig die Bezieher mittlerer Einkommen. Bei ihnen haben die tariflichen Entlastungen -...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...