Das Gutachten untersucht die fiskalischen Auswirkungen der (Wieder-)Einführung einer Vermögensteuer auf den Haushalt des Bundeslandes Hessen. Da die Steuerreformen der rot-grünen Bundesregierung von 1998 bis 2005 eine beträchtliche strukturelle Einnahmenlücke aufgerissen haben, die durch...

In most OECD countries the redistributive effect of the tax system has been substantially weakened by deliberate tax policies over the last decades. Despite some signs that this trend may have recently come to a halt a comprehensive policy change is not underway. One major argument brought...

From 1999 to 2005 the former Red-Green government in Germany enacted a series of ambitious tax cuts that were supposed to boost the German Economy. The article argues that these tax cuts instead of boosting the economy involved major costs. The revenue losses induced substantial expenditures...

The trend of increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth in most developed countries has led to calls for corrective tax increases for the rich and wealthy. Such calls are often confronted with the claim that higher taxes on top personal incomes, corporate income and wealth...

Der Abbau der so genannten kalten Progression ist ein regelmäßig wiederkehrendes Thema in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte. Dabei geht es darum, dass die Steuerpflichtigen inflationsbedingt in eine höhere Progressionszone hineinwachsen, ohne dass ihr Realeinkommen entsprechend gestiegen...