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Using the example of the inheritance tax, this paper examines whether and how the strictness of tax compliance norms depends on the interrelation between tax objectives, tax design, and taxed behavior. Building on the literature on tax evasion, optimal inheritance taxation, family economics, and...
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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308486
This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income distribution. Comparing weighted samples of survey and tax data, we find patterns that are in line with the literature: Average income from self-employment and from rent and lease in...
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This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income distribution. Comparing weighted samples of survey and tax data, we find patterns that are in line with the literature: Average income from self-employment and from rent and lease in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697780
In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...
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experiment in which underreporting has a higher expected payoff than truthful reporting we find: a large share, about 15 …
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experiment in which underreporting has a higher expected payoff than truthful reporting we find: a large share, about 15 …
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regime. -- tax reforms ; tax compliance ; experiment …
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change in a laboratory experiment. More specifically, experimental subjects face one tax regime for a certain commonly known …. However, our experiment features two further interesting aspects: First, we let our participants choose between the two tax … regimes that they encounter during the experiment after they have experienced both regimes. Second, an innovative feature …
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