Paternalism, merit goods and specific egalitarianism are concepts we sometimes meet in the literature. The thing in common is that the policy maker does not fully respect the consumer sovereignty principle and design policies according to some other criterion than individuals' preferences. Using...

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue...

This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...

Paternalism, merit goods and specific egalitarianism are concepts we sometimes meet in the literature. The thing in common is that the policy maker does not fully respect the consumer sovereignty principle and designs policies according to some other criterion than individuals? preferences....

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two tax regimes to fund a public good. The first-best tax regime imposes a general, distortion-free income tax. However, this tax cannot be enforced. The second-best alternative supplements the income tax by a specific commodity tax. This tax...

This working paper examines whether the EU countries are in a race-to-the-bottom competition with regard to their corporate taxes. An empirical model is used to determine whether such a race is actually on, i.e., whether states reduce their taxation of capital income in response to increasing...

Trotz der vielfältigen Änderungen der Einkommen- und Körperschaftsteuer in den letzten Jahren wird die Kritik am bestehenden Steuersystem immer lauter. Welche der zahlreichen Vorschläge zur Reform der Einkommensteuer sind realisierbar? Wie sind die Erfolgsaussichten einer...

Die aktuellen Pläne der Großen Koalition zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung geben ein positives Signal: Der Gewinnsteuersatz der Unternehmen wird deutlich reduziert, im Gegenzug wird die Bemessungsgrundlage verbreitert. Insgesamt verringern die Pläne die Anreize zu Steuergestaltungen. Die...

Argentina is known for its tax system, that has various mechanisms to collect taxes in advance, causing large immobilizations in illiquid tax credits in most companies. The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects that these tax advances regimes would generate on the payment capacity...