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,...

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...

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 examines the interaction between minimum wage legislation and tax evasion byemployed labor. I develop a model in which firms and workers may agree to report less thanthe true amount of earnings to the fiscal authorities. I show that introducing a minimum wagecreates a spike in the...

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’sunderground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Ourapproach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended byLyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic hypothesis...

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approachallows us to examine (i) the...