Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Ausgestaltung der einkommensteuerlichen Abschreibung von beweglichen Wirtschaftsgütern (Absetzung für Abnutzung - AfA). Soweit es Zielsetzung des Steuergesetzgebers ist, ein international wettbewerbsfähiges und einfaches Steuerrecht zu verwirklichen sowie...

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-off between selling a temporarily-depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...