Im Rahmen der letzten Steuerreform wurde wiederholt Reformneutralität der Besteuerung gefordert. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, ob sich die Besteuerung von Beteiligungsveräußerungen grundsätzlich sinnvoll anhand des Kriteriums der Rechtsformneutralität beurteilen läßt.(...)

This paper asks whether tax cycles can represent the optimal policy in a model without any extrinsic uncertainty. I show, in an economy without capital and where labor is the only choicevariable (a Lucas-Stokey economy), that a large class of preferences exists, where cycles are optimal, as well...

We study the optimal path for capital and labor taxes in a dynamic economy with heterogeneous agents. In an otherwise standard model we concentrate on tax reforms that are both Pareto effcient and Pareto improving. Also, we assume the capital tax rate can never rise above its initial level and...

This paper examines the decline of National Insurance in Britain, as witnessedby its declining share of all social security spending and the steady dilution ofthe “contributory principle” on which it was originally based. It argues that thisdecline is not an accident: under governments of...

Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...

We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if itis implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issuein a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workersdiffer in productivity...

We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. Theindividuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneousproductivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, thegovernment, which does not observe the...

The recent German discussion has witnessed increasing interest in the Dual IncomeTax. The analysis of its merits, as opposed to those of a comprehensiveincome tax, is usually conducted with the main argument of the increasing mobilityof financial capital in mind. This article pursues an...

Der Beitrag setzt sich kritisch mit der Bewertung von Grundvermögen für steuerliche Zweckeauseinander. Um den Erhebungsaufwand der Finanzbehörden gering zu halten, werdeneinfache, auf wenigen Grundstücks- bzw. Gebäudemerkmalen basierendeBewertungsverfahren eingesetzt. Die...

In diesem Beitrag werden die Effekte symmetrischer und differenzierender Besteuerungauf die Portfoliowahl und den Arbeitsanreiz untersucht. Hierbei wird zunächst ein Portfoliomodellmit zwei riskanten Projekten im Ein-Personen-Kontext, d.h. ohne Arbeitsanreizproblembetrachtet. Symmetrische...