tax in Germany is going on. With respect to the r educed top tax rate of 42 percent in a meantime and now 45 percent high … income earners seem to be privileged. However, focusing solely on the top income tax rate is an inadequate limitation of the … redistributive effects of the income tax are ignored. Furthermore, defining income brackets in nominal terms has an entirely …

Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to … microsimulation, we compare both methods. Investigating tax scale effects by the group model leads to very good results. Determining … the financial effects of modified tax bases, the deviation from the microsimulation results increases especially if tax …

Nachbildung des Steuersystems wird mit der Technik der Mikrosimulation vollzogen. FiFoSiM enthält weiterhin ein ökonometrisch …

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of … of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the question, whether or not the later stages of the German Income Tax … Tax Reform in the scope of a simplified DGE model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff type and deals explicitly with the issue of …

This paper computes the optimal progressivity of the income tax code in a dynamic general equilibrium model with …. A progressive tax system serves as a partial substitute for missing insurance markets and enhances an equal distribution … of economic welfare. These beneficial effects of a progressive tax system have to be traded off against the efficiency …

the insurance and redistribution role of the income tax system. …In this paper we quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations … of the policy maker for insurance against idiosyncratic shocks and redistribution among agents of different abilities …

In this paper we focused on the flat tax impact on inequality in Romania. We compared 2005 against 2004, when we were … able to isolate the flat tax impact from other factors. We found that the higher the gross wage, the higher the flat tax … the flat tax. The Lorenz curve is illustrative, as only the last quantile of the population (richest 20%) appears as the …

conditions, transferred ownership at higher rates than others. Inter vivos transfer rates also rose following a 2009 tax … reduction on transfers of business assets. The second study delves into how the 2009 transfer tax re-form influenced individual …