Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde von Andrea Gebauer in weiten Teilen während ihrer Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am ifo Institut erstellt und im September 2007 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die seit 2001 festzustellende schwache Entwicklung der deutschen...

Tax reform is a permanent topic of the economic policy debate in Germany. The paper presents a radical reform proposal (as well as a survey of other proposals) and describes some steps towards the realization of the proposal. The tax system proposed mainly consists of a value added tax, a flat...

The sales taxes in the EU - and in several other countries - are practiced as value-added tax of the consumption type with invoice method. Literature on microsimulation models (MSM) for this type of VAT is rare, though the importance of VAT has continuously increased. We discuss the issues of...

The sales taxes in the EU|and in several other countries|are practiced as value-added tax of the consumption type with invoice method. Literature on microsimulation models (MSM) for this type of VAT is rare, though the importance of VAT has continuously increased. We discuss the issues of...