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 …

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 …

distribution of wealth. Imposing such levies is not easy, however, since it involves valuation of assets and preventing tax … 000 euros for married couples) give a tax base of 92 percent of the GDP. A forced loan or a levy of, for example, ten … percent of this tax base could thus mobilize just over nine percent of the GDP-around 230 billion euros. This would affect the …

We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …