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An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is often regarded as desirable. We analyze a wealth tax at corporate and personal level that is designed as an AMT as proposed by the German Green Party. This wealth tax is imputable to profit taxes and is hence intended to prevent multiple (multistage) taxation....
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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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Im internationalen Vergleich besteuert Deutschland die Vermögen niedrig. Eine Ausweitung der Besteuerung auf das Durchschnittsniveau von OECD und EU könnte ein Steuermehraufkommen von gut einem Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts erzielen - das wären gegenwärtig rund 25 Milliarden Euro. Bei...
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[Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Ergebnisse] Im Zuge der Bundestagswahl 2013 gab es eine breite öffentliche Diskussion um die Wiedereinführung der 1996 letztmals erhobenen Vermögensteuer in Deutschland. Die damalige Diskussion wurde im Jahr 2013 in einer Studie des ZEW für die Stiftung...
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Im April dieses Jahres hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die derzeit gültigen Vorschriften für die Bemessung der Grundsteuer für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Der Gesetzgeber wurde beauftragt, bis zum 31. Dezember 2019 eine Neuregelung zu treffen. Die Forschungsgruppe Steuer- und Finanzpolitik...
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The 2008 financial crisis is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. It has been characterised by a housing bubble in a context of rapid credit expansion, high risk-taking and exacerbated financial leverage, leading to deleveraging and credit crunch when the bubble burst....
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Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...
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