In order to collect the revenue necessary to fund public goods, states are often required to both deter tax evasion and encourage voluntary tax compliance on the part of their citizens. While most prior research has focused on explaining tax evasion with standard economic model parameters, there...

The individual capacity to form personal preferences constitutes an essential element of the democratic process. At the same time, policies with far-reaching consequences often require profound expertise. Taxation is such an example. Due to its complex character, bounded rationality might induce...

Due to its overwhelming significance among taxes on earnings in the agricultural and forestry sector, the analyses are primarily concentrated on the international comparison of effective income tax burden in the selected EU Member States as well as Canada, the United States and Japan. In this...

Die Verteilung der aufkommensstärksten Steuerarten zeigt, dass in Deutschland starke Schultern mehr tragen als schwache. Die 10 Prozent der Haushalte mit den höchsten Einkommen zahlen fast die Hälfte des gesamten Aufkommens der Einkommensteuer. Bei der Mehrwertsteuer ist der Anteil aufgrund...

This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe feature negative jointness defined as a situation where the tax rate on one person depends...

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...

Using a two-moment decision model this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of unified and differential income taxation. We start with the well-known result that risk-taking may increase when income tax rates increase and, therefore, the incentive for hedging reduces. We...

Marginal income taxes may have an insurance effect by decreasing the effective fluctuations of after-tax individual income. By compressing the idiosyncratic component o personal income fluctuations, higher marginal taxes should be negatively correlated with the dispersion of consumption across...

Wie ist der von Paul Kirchhof in diesem Jahr vorgelegte Entwurf zur Reform des deutschen Steuerrechts zu beurteilen? Dieter Dziadkowski, Mitglied der Ursprungslandkommission und der Einkommensteuer-(Bareis)-Kommission, betont, dass der Reformentwurf »ein ganzheitliches Werk« sei mit dem Ziel,...

In this paper we employ a tax-competition model to demonstrate that in the presence of migration the re-distributive advantage of a non-linear income tax system over a linear (flat) one is significantly mitigated relative to the autarky (no-migration) equilibrium. When migration threats are...