The rising importance of bequests as a source of personal income lead to renewed interest in the taxation of wealth transfers. Empirical evidence on distortionary effects of bequest taxation is relatively scarce. On the basis of administrative data for Germany, this paper assesses the extent to...

Um die Antizipationsfehler der häufig in der Praxis angewandten Investitionsrechnung mit vereinfachter Steuerbemessungsgrundlage zu quantifizieren, wird in dieser Arbeit eine Unternehmenssimulation auf Basis empirischer Daten entwickelt. Mittels einer Monte Carlo-Simulation wird eine...

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is often regarded as desirable. We analyze a wealth tax at corporate and personal level that is designed as an AMT as proposed by the German Green Party. This wealth tax is imputable to profit taxes and is hence intended to prevent multiple (multistage) taxation....