The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest German corporate income and capital tax reform, which entails a major shift of the capital tax burden from the firm to the household level. Using a dynamic two-country computable general equilibrium model with integrated capital...

particular assets are taxed, for considering the role of differential tax rules and risk in determining household portfolio choices, and for addressing distributional questions. Unfortunately, current versions of these models give housing short shrift; owner housing is assumed to be riskless,...

Portfolio-based general equilibrium models are useful for analyzing the interaction between the structure of individual tax rates and the wayparticular assets are taxed, for considering the role of differential tax rules and risk in determining household portfolio choices, and for addressing...