The paper presents data on the taxation of business income in the Federal Republic of Germany in the nineties. The government's plan to reform the System of taxing corporate and personal income is portrayed and assessed. It turns out that the reform proposal has numerous disadvantages; it is...

The paper includes data on the taxation of wage income (labor income tax and contributions to social security) and capital income in the Federal Republic of Germany. Average tax rates and marginal tax rates for typical wage income earners are shown for the 1977-1999 period; average tax rates are...

Auf seiner 132. Tagung hat der Arbeitskreis "Steuerschätzungen" Mehreinnahmen für die Jahre 2008 und 2009 prognostiziert. Von einem krisenbedingten Einbruch der Staatseinnahmen kann gegenwärtig nicht gesprochen werden. Obwohl die Prognosen für das Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert werden, wird...

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Fehlanreize im Sozialsystem stehen derzeit im Mittelpunkt der öffentlichen Debatte. Gibt es ähnliche Phänomene bei der Einkommensbesteuerung? Professor Dirk Meyer plädiert für eine Sollertragsbesteuerung, die statt an dem tatsächlich erzielten Einkommen an den möglichen Erträgen des...

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether politicians manipulate the timing of tax rate changes in a strategic way to maximize reelection prospects. To do so, we exploit the German local business tax as a testing ground which is set autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates...

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...