The paper surveys the characteristics of the common European VAT system, proposed by the EU-Commission to overcome the weaknesses of the transitional European VAT system, which was enacted in 1993 and is still in force. We argue that a harmonized VAT rate will generate substantial costs for EU...

Das Papier gibt einen Überblick über den ökonomischen Befund und die steuerpolitischen Empfehlungen des Ruding Komitees zur Körperschaftsbesteuerung im Europäischen Binnenmarkt. Die Beurteilung der Ausgangssituation durch das Ruding Komitee wird alternativen Sichtweisen und eigenen Analysen...

It is a widely acknowledged result of the literature on capital tax competition that underprovision of public goods can only be avoided if tax coordination between governments is intensive and residence-based capital taxation can be enforced. In this paper we use a model where commodity and...