Der Beitrag setzt sich kritisch mit der Bewertung von Grundvermögen für steuerliche Zwecke auseinander. Um den Erhebungsaufwand der Finanzbehörden gering zu halten, werden einfache, auf wenigen Grundstücks- bzw. Gebäudemerkmalen basierende Bewertungsverfahren eingesetzt. Die...

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...