This professorial dissertation thesis collects several empirical studies on tax distribution and tax reform in Germany. Chapter 2 deals with two studies on effective income taxation, based on representative micro data sets from tax statistics. The first study analyses the effective income...

This study presents comprehensive macroeconomic measures on the revenue from business taxation in Germany. A comparison of the tax base reported in tax statistics with the corporate income derived from national accounts gives hints to considerable tax base erosion. The high weight of reported...

Nach Schätzungen des DIW Berlin liegt das jährliche Unternehmensteueraufkommen in Deutschland derzeit bei rund 100 Mrd. Euro (gut 4 % des Bruttoinlandsprodukts). Gemessen an den im internationalen Vergleich nach wie vor hohen Steuersätzen erzielt der deutsche Fiskus damit nur ein mäßiges...