The recent German discussion has witnessed increasing interest in the Dual Income Tax. The analysis of its merits, as opposed to those of a comprehensive income tax, is usually conducted with the main argument of the increasing mobility of financial capital in mind. This article pursues an...

Nach wie vor ist das Splitting wegen der negativen Anreizwirkungen auf die Erwerbstätigkeit verheirateter Frauen in der Kritik und deshalb unter gleichstellungsrechtlichen Aspekten zu diskutieren. Deutschland wurde durch Organe der EU mehrfach angemahnt, das Steuersystem auf Benachteiligungen...

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i.e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax...

In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax systems...

Die Arbeit stellt das Wesen und die Grundzüge der Lohnsteuer, einschließlich einem kurzen Abriß der Entwicklung des Lohnsteuerverfahrens, dar. Sie ist weder als Anleitung zur Ausfüllung eines Antrags auf Lohnsteuerjahresausgleich, noch als Nachschlagwerk gedacht.Der Leser dieser Ausarbeitung...

We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...

We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the payroll-tax schedules that affect individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our...

Eine Steuerreform in Deutschland wird sowohl von Seiten der Wissenschaft als auch von Parteien vorgeschlagen. Mithilfe einer Fortschreibung der Ergebnisse der Lohnsteuerstatistik 1998 werden die finanziellen Auswirkungen der Einführung alternativer Steuertarife (u.a. der von F. Merz, H. O....

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...