Der bundesstaatliche Finanzausgleich als Säule eines Solidarsystems der jeweiligen (Bundes-) Länder untereinander steht derzeit in der Diskussion um eine mögliche Neugestaltung. Derzeit stehen 3 Geberländern 13 Nehmerländer gegenüber. Im Zuge einer Neuordnung des bundesstaatlichen...

German Fiscal Federalism is characterized by a high degree of fiscal equalization which lowers the efficiency of local tax administration. Currently, a reform of the fiscal equalization scheme is on the political agenda. One option is to grant federal states the right to raise surtaxes on...

Das Auslaufen des Solidarpakts II erfordert eine Neuordnung der Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Bund und Ländern. Jenseits ökonomischer Empfehlungen zeichnet sich in der politischen Debatte eine Fokussierung auf zwei Reformvorschläge ab. Zum einen handelt es sich dabei um einen Vorschlag, nach dem...

German Fiscal Federalism is characterized by a high degree of fiscal equalization which lowers the efficiency of local tax administration. Currently, a reform of the fiscal equalization scheme is on the political agenda. One option is to grant federal states the right to raise surtaxes on...

In this paper, we test one of the fundamental assumptions in the tax competition literature, namely, that a country's taxable income depends on the tax policies pursued in the domestic and in neighbouring countries. Based on a panel of annual data of 14 Western European countries spanning the...

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...

This paper offers a comprehensive and updated review of the effects of intergovernmental grants. We focus on the main findings in the existing literature on the effects of intergovernmental grants on tax policy and choices, expenditure decisions, fiscal stability and behavioral choices, and...

An international tax haven is usually a low-tax jurisdiction that seeks to attract investment by foreign investors. But, there are many state and local jurisdictions within federal systems that set zero tax rates on personal or corporate income, consumption, property, and wealth in an effort to...

This paper exploits an exogenous reform of the local fiscal equalization scheme in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia to identify tax mimicking by municipalities in the neighboring state of Lower Saxony. The spatial lag regressions provide no evidence for the existence of strategic...