The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...

Die vorliegende Dissertation zum Thema „Theoretische und Empirische Aspekte der Besteuerung von Veräußerungsgewinnen“ beschäftigt sich mit den Effekten der Besteuerung von realisierten Wertsteigerungen beim Anteilsverkauf. In dieser Arbeit werden zum einen normative (Manuskript 1) sowie...

¿Tiene la economía española un nivel óptimo de progresividad en el impuesto sobre la renta de las personas físicas (IRPF)? Este artículo cuantifica las consecuencias agregadas, distribucionales y de bienestar de establecer la progresividad del IRPF en su nivel óptimo. Con objeto de...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2101. Published in SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, vol. 11(4), pp. 407-455, November 2020

In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...

Auditor's tax deeds, which convey legal ownership of property from the county auditor to the county, were one step in the process of foreclosure for delinquent taxes. These deeds recite the amount of tax due for which the property was sold, the year in which it was assessed, the day and year of...

The article expresses the view that the current Internal Revenue Code has evolved into a hybrid income tax and consumption tax. It begins by explaining the difference between an income tax and a consumption tax and provides the backgrounds of the alternative forms of consumption tax: (1)...

This article discusses probably the most significant obstacle to the adoption of a consumption tax: the negative effects on existing wealth that the transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The Congressional Budget Office in its 1997 study posed the question,...

This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in Applied economics letters, 2009, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 267-271. Applied economics letters is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/13504850601018387

The decision of an estate owner to employ a trust as an estate planninginstrument normally involves the disposal of all or part of his growth assets tothe trust. This is done to ensure that the value of such growth assets ispegged down in his personal estate, whilst any growth in the assets...