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The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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This paper compares the distributional effects of price cap and lump sum transfer policies to aid the affordability of subsistence electricity consumption. A lump sum transfer is more progressive than a comparable price cap on all units of electricity. We identify conditions under which these...
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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 …
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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 …
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Nachbildung des Steuersystems wird mit der Technik der Mikrosimulation vollzogen. FiFoSiM enthält weiterhin ein ökonometrisch …
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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 …
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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 …
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-accumulation of capital may result compared to the complete markets economy. We show that reducing somewhat the capital income tax … rate increases the capital stock and leads to a welfare gain. The complete elimination of the capital income tax, however …
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This paper quantifies the effects of two short-run fiscal policies, a temporary tax cut and a temporary rebate transfer … marginally. Both policies improve the overall welfare of households, and the rebate policy especially benefits low …-income households. In the long run, however, the debt accumulated to finance the stimulus and a higher tax to service the debt can crowd …
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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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