analyse tax policy reforms, including in particular pension and demographic issues. The main feature of the EDGE-M3 model lies … the greatest extent possible. In particular, it includes the richness of the tax code by means of income tax and social … insurance contribution rate functions estimated using data from the EUROMOD microsimulation model. This feature allows in …

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 …

clarifies the aspects of taxes that should be considered in an optimal tax system construction. These include solutions which … stimulate taxpayer behavior, the economically and socially oriented objectives of taxation, and guides needed for tax … equalization. The conclusions are focused on the tax rates in personal and corporate income tax and their influence on economic …

. It shows the main point of view on public fiscal policy especially in the case of personal income tax and creates a …, the last part of the work is a study on fiscal level and tax system structures and economic growth. In this part the … authors checks two points of view on taxation. The first is that a low level tax burden is conducive to economic growth, and …

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 …