There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

Laut Bundesverfassungsgericht ist die unterschiedliche Besteuerung von Beamtenpensionen und Renten nicht mit dem Gleichheitssatz des Grundgesetzes vereinbar. Dieser Feststellung folgend stellt Prof. Dr. Eckart Bomsdorf, Universität zu Köln, zunächst Ansätze zur Steuerfreistellung der...