Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021
On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a temporary value added tax (VAT) rate reduction. VAT rates were … VAT rate reduction using a web-scraped data set covering the daily prices of roughly 130,000 supermarket products. To … an asymmetric price response to the VAT rate cut and subsequent increase. The reduction of VAT rates led to a price …