The book offers a comprehensive treatment of tax theory and policy. It surveys the German tax system, portrays tax history, and describes principles of tax administration and the construction of schedules. Tax shifting, optimal taxation theory, and questions of tax justice are considered in...

Der Artikel vergleicht die klassische und die zinsbereinigte Einkommensteuer. Es wird argumentiert, dass die klassische Einkommensteuer in mehrfacher Hinsicht überlegen ist.

Der Beitrag untersucht Paul Kirchhofs Vorschlag einer fundamentalen Mehrwertsteuerreform.

The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...