Dual income tax systems have become increasingly popular; yet, relatively little is <p> known about the consequences of implementing such tax systems. This paper uses a representative panel of taxpayers from the 1993 Finnish tax reform to measure how overall taxable income and the relative shares...</p>

Dual income tax systems have become increasingly popular; yet, relatively little is known about the consequences of implementing such tax systems. This paper uses a representative panel of taxpayers from the 1993 Finnish tax reform to measure how overall taxable income and the relative shares of...

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 aim of this paper is to analyze how Spanish taxpayers have responded to the introduction of the dual personal income tax model in 2007. The authors estimate the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) with respect to the marginal net tax rate for different groups of taxpayers by sex, marital...

The aim of this paper is to analyse how Spanish taxpayers responded to the introduction of the dual personal income tax model in 2007. The authors estimate the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) with respect to the marginal net tax rate for different groups of taxpayers by sex, marital status...

Die Idee des bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens hat inzwischen zahlreiche prominente Unterstützer. Dabei gibt es weder schlüssige Finanzierungskonzepte, noch können realitätsferne Experimente darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass fehlende Arbeits- und Bildungsanreize das Vorhaben zu einem gewaltigen...

This paper examines the empirical relevance of the double dividend of revenue neutral marginal environmental tax reforms. For this purpose we use an extended version of the Ahmad-Stern model of indirect taxation. This version includes environmental externalities. We estimate the key parameters...

Im Koalitionsvertrag vom November 2009 wurden Steuersenkungen versprochen. Vor allem sollte durch eine Einkommensteuerreform die »kalte Progression« abgebaut werden. Die Steuerschätzung vom Mai 2011 ging von deutlichen Steuermehreinnahmen bis 2015 aus. Gibt es angesichts der...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden auf Basis des deutschen Taxpayer-Panels für die Jahre 2001 bis 2006 erstmals mittels des in der Literatur derzeit als Standard angesehenen Ansatzes Einkommenselastizitäten für Deutschland in mehreren Jahresvergleichen ermittelt. Zur Identifikation des Einflusses...

The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...