Sachverhalte mit Auslandsbezug sind Alltag in deutschen Kanzleien. Das Gebiet des Internationalen Steuerrechts wird jedoch oft unterschätzt und so werden nicht immer die steueroptimalen Entscheidungen in der Beratung getroffen. Das Werk erläutert die Grundlagen und gibt zahlreiche Hinweise...

Corporate tax reforms carried out in EU countries since 1980 entail lower statutory tax rates and reductions in generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs’...

This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...

Since the early 1990s an unprecedented process of consolidation has taken place in the banking sector in most industrialised countries raising concern of policymakers that it may reduce access to credit for the small business sector. While most of the existing empirical studies have focused on...