In kurzem Abstand sind in den Jahren 2000 und 2003 große politische Initiativen gescheitert, die wichtigsten deutschen Gemeindesteuern, die Grund- und die Gewerbesteuer, zu reformieren. Die Studie fasst die diskutierten Reformmodelle zusammen und verweist auf die fortbestehende Notwendigkeit...

Die Subventionsdefinition des Subventionsberichts des Bundes und andere in Deutschland gebräuchliche Abgrenzungen zeigen große Unterschiede zum Begriff der staatlichen Beihilfen im Sinne des EG-Vertrags. Die häufigen Verwirrungen und Fehlsteuerungen, die hieraus folgen, werfen die Frage auf,...

The well-known Johansson-Samuelson Theorem proves that, in partial equilibrium, comprehensive income taxation with a uniform tax rate is neutral in terms of investment decisions, if fiscal depreciation allowances coincide with economic depreciation. In this article we show that this result does...

Credit contracting between a lender with a market power and a small start-up entrepreneur may lead to a rejection of projects whose expected benefits are higher than their total costs when an adverse selection is present. This inefficiency may be eliminated by a government support in the form of...

This study examines the determinants of CEO compensation using data from a nationally representative sample of privately held U.S. corporations. We find that (i) the pay-size elasticity is much larger for privately held firms than for the publicly traded firms on which previous research has...

This paper calculates effective macro-economic tax rates for the 25 EU countries following the methodology developed in Mendoza, Razin, and Tesar (1994). The available Eurostat data allow to compute the tax wedge on consumption, labor and capital. We show that effective tax rates in the 10 new...

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision...

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is often regarded as desirable. We analyze a wealth tax at corporate and personal level that is designed as an AMT as proposed by the German Green Party. This wealth tax is imputable to profit taxes and is hence intended to prevent multiple (multistage) taxation....