This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …—and the mapping between these functions and various forms of taxation. Different types of taxation as well as expenditures on …

established by Piketty (2001, 2003). The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major … including capital gains to 2010, and the series excluding capital gains to 2008. Second, we derive three homogeneous series by … simulating legislative definitions of capital income prevailing in Germany between 2001 and 2010. For both simulation and the …