Das DIW Berlin hat sechs aktuelle Vorschläge für eine grundlegende Reform der deutschen Einkommens- und Ertragsbesteuerung untersucht, die von den Oppositionsparteien, dem Sachverständigenrat und einer Forschungsgruppe um den Verfassungsrechtler Paul Kirchhof gemacht worden sind. Diese...

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...

Zur Gewerbesteuer gibt es eine Reihe von Reformvorschlägen, die von einer reinen Gewinnsteuer bis zu einer Wertschöpfungsteuer reichen. Entsprechende Besteuerungskonzepte sind auch im Ausland anzutreffen. Analysen mit dem Unternehmensteuer- Mikrosimulationsmodell BizTax des DIW Berlin zeigen...

In this paper, we employ a calibrated two-country version of the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM) currently under development at the European Central Bank to examine the potential benefits and spillovers of reducing labour-market distortions caused by euro area tax structures. Our analysis shows that...

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation...

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. An important aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. Drawing on data of the German Socio...

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in post-war German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. One central aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. In this paper, I estimate an intertemporal...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a tax policy change on social welfare by using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French taxbenefit system. The collective approach allows studying the intrahousehold distribution so that for the first...

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....

Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few attempts have been made to operationalize cooperative models of household labor supply for policy...