Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

CORTAX is a macroeconomic model that focuses on corporate taxation and is used extensively for European Commission policy assessments. As a macroeconomic model, it simulates variables such as GDP, investment and employment, while being especially notable for its focus on corporate income...

Income Tax and National Insurance are now sufficiently similar that merging them appears to be a plausible option, yet still sufficiently different that integration raises significant difficulties. This paper surveys the potential benefits of integration – increased transparency and reduced...

This paper develops a competition theory framework that evaluates an important aspect of the OECD's Harmful Tax Practices Initiative against tax havens. We show that the sequential nature of the process is harmful and more costly than a 'big bang' multilateral agreement. The sequentiality may...

This paper uses confidential firm-level panel data to provide new estimates on the extent of corporate profit shifting by German-based affiliates of multinational corporations. The estimated semi-elasticity of reported profits with regard to statutory foreign tax rates is 3.6, or 4.8 when...

Due to its overwhelming significance among taxes on earnings in the agricultural and forestry sector, the analyses are primarily concentrated on the international comparison of effective income tax burden in the selected EU Member States as well as Canada, the United States and Japan. In this...

Steuerrecht ist nationales Recht. Somit kann jede einzelne Nation über steuerrechtliche Regelungen Forschung und Entwicklung fördern und gegebenenfalls Besteuerungssubstrat aus anderen Ländern absaugen. Eine dieser speziellen Regelungen ist die Patentbox Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es...

Die Kraftfahrzeugsteuer (KraftSt) ist im Jahr 1906 als sog. "Luxusaufwandsteuer" eingeführt worden. Die KraftSt belastete zunächst nur "das Halten von Personenkraftwagen" - ab 1922 wurde die Befreiung für den gewerbsmäßigen Verkehr aufgehoben. In einem weiteren Versuch der steuerrechtlichen...

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...