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Using macro-level panel data, we examine the effects of taxation and tax progressivity on entrepreneurship in a large … entrepreneurial activity, focusing on new self-employment (nascent entrepreneurship). Second, we investigate the impact of tax … progressivity on entrepreneurship, again focusing on the impact on new self-employment. We find that tax progressivity at higher …
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Finanzpolitikern wie auch Steuerbürgern bietet die Geschichte des deutschen Steuerwesens, geschrieben von dem Kölner Professor für Neuere Geschichte, grundlegende Einsichten und weitreichende Aufklärung über die vorausgegangene Entwicklung der heutigen Finanzsituation. Besonders...
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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In models of redistribution, differences in human capital are often the relevant source of heterogeneity amongst individuals. Presumably, the distribution of human capital can be manipulated through education spending. This paper examines the use of education as a redistributive tool when there...
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We present four important dimensions to international tax policy from a tax-systems perspective, stressing that non-rate/base tax policies can have different cross-jurisdictional spillover effects than changes in tax rates. The dimensions are the allocation of global income among taxing...
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This paper assumes that individuals possess private information both about their abilities and about their valuation of a public good. Individuals can undertake collective actions on order to manipulate the tax system and the decision on public good provision. Consequently, an implementable...
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We present a conceptual framework for the analysis of politically feasible tax reforms. First, we prove a median voter theorem for monotonic reforms of non-linear tax systems. This yields a characterization of reforms that are preferred by a majority of individuals over the status quo and hence...
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) “principle of taxation” proves that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045926