Previous accounting research shows that taxes affect decision making by individuals and firms. Most studies assume that agents have accurate perception regarding their tax burden. However, there is a growing body of literature analyzing whether taxes are indeed perceived correctly. We review 124...

Decisions-makers in firms are expected to use perceived rather than actual tax rates and hence their decisions can be substantially biased by misperception. We quantify firms' misperception of their average tax rate (ATR) and marginal tax rate (MTR) and identify drivers of this tax rate...

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....

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob das im Zuge der Erbschaftsteuerreform 2009 eingeführte neue Ertragswertverfahren eine gleichmäßigere Bewertung bewirkt als die ebenfalls als Ertragswertverfahren konzipierte Bedarfsbewertung, die den Vorstellungen des...