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....

From a tax planner's point of view, it is often attractive to choose debt over equity financing. As this has led to an increase of debt financing of corporations, many countries have introduced thin capitalization rules to secure their tax revenues. We analyze the influence of section 8a of the...

Als Steuerbelastungsindikator findet die Konzernsteuerquote trotz ihrer methodischen Schwächen zunehmend Verbreitung. Aus steuerlicher Sicht stellt sich die Frage, ob die quantitative Messung der vollständigen und realitätsnahen unternehmerischen Steuerbelastung mit Hilfe der...

Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to appropriate data is still rather restricted and expensive for ad-hoc analyses, or individual data is often even not available at all. In this paper we take Germany and its data...