With its Action Plan for a Fairer and Efficient Corporate Tax System (COM (2015) 302) published on 17 June 2015, the European Commission relaunched the idea of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (European Commission (2015a)). The respective proposals for a Council Directive have recently...

This paper discusses the impact and the appropriateness of tax incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union. First, we provide a survey of implemented tax incentives specifically targeted at SMEs in the 28 EU Member States. Building hereon, we measure the impact...

Encouraging private investment in the EU is currently a primary goal of the European Commission. However, the effectiveness of public policies to stimulate private investment - such as a European Fund for Strategic Investments, which was recently proposed by the president of the European...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has become an influential player in the field of direct taxation in the European Union in the past twenty years. However, it is unclear whether the ECJ's decisions actually increase tax neutrality and therefore contribute to the achievement of an internal...

Ziel dieser Studie ist es, für die 28 EU-Staaten sowie die Schweiz, Norwegen, Republik Mazedonien, Türkei, USA, Kanada und Japan effektive Steuersätze zu ermitteln. Dabei stützt sich die Berechnung der inländischen und grenzüberschreitenden marginalen und durchschnittlichen...