The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

Die aktuelle Nachhaltigkeitslücke aus impliziten und expliziten Schulden beläuft sich auf 225,8 Prozent des BIP und ist damit im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich um etwa 80 Prozentpunkte. Da die expliziten Schulden sich auf nur 60,9 Prozent des BIP belaufen, werden nur 27,0 Prozent der...

For more than 50 years, researchers around the world have tirelessly been searching for a solution to Blacks famous “dividend-puzzle.” However, despite tremendous efforts in different fields of economics, the influence of taxation on the distribution policy of firms has remained elusive and...