Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reformsthat change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both thewage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labourtaxation towards the tax...

We establish the precise connections between progressive taxation andinequality reduction, in a setting where the level of tax revenue to be raised isendogenously fixed and tax schemes are balanced. We show that, in contrastwith the traditional literature on taxation, the equivalence between...

This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic...

Die betriebswirtschaftliche Steuerforschung hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten herausgearbeitet,wie Zeiteffekte (Zinseffekte) und Progressionseffekte bei der Steuerbilanzpolitik und bei derAusschüttungspolitik von Kapitalgesellschaften zusammenspielen.1 Nun hat der Gesetzgebereinen neuen, besonders...

Das Einkommensteuergesetz sieht neben der allgemeinen Tarifvorschrift des § 32a EStG zurErmittlung der tariflichen Einkommensteuer Sondertarifformen vor, die an das Vorliegenbestimmter Sachverhalte anknüpfen.1 Hierzu zählen §§ 32b EStG (Progressionsvorbehalt),32d EStG (Steuertarif für...

Im aktuellen politischen Diskurs werden parteiübergreifend zwei Probleme der deutschen Einkom-mensteuer identifiziert: die kalte Progression und der Mittelstandsbauch. Dabei scheint weitgehend Einigkeit zu herrschen, dass beide Probleme beseitigt werden sollen. Lediglich der geeignete...

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households’ taxliabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts onthe distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxespaid and income,...

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two taxregimes to fund a public good. The first-best tax regime imposes ageneral, distortion-free income tax. However, this tax cannot be enforced.The second-best alternative supplements the income tax by a specificcommodity tax. This tax...

We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. The waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities, investing costly effort in concealment, respectively detect ion, of tax evasion. We show that (socially ineffcient) efforts depend positively on the...

Dynamics of compliance, depending on audit probability, sanctions, and the time lagbetween audits, are investigated in a tax experiment. Compliance varied significantlyover time: it decreased immediately after an audit and increased afterwards, especially if audits were frequent and sanctions high.