Michael Stimmelmayr undertakes the intricate task of analyzing the outcome and especially the efficiency gains of capital income tax reforms. The simultaneous alteration of several tax rates will induce multiple economy wide repercussions, as firms and households change their optimal behaviour...

Governments that wish to redistribute through budgetary policy do so mostly on the spending side, not on the taxation side of the budget. The taxation side is nevertheless important, partly because less efficient tax structures seem to be associated with lower taxation and spending levels. Hence...