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...

The elasticity of taxable income has gained increasing attention as a fiscal policy parameter. This paper provides empirical evidence for Germany and adds to the relatively small body of literature for European countries. We use a large new panel data set to analyze the taxable income response...

We study the optimal observability of the tax base within the standard linear income tax problem, where observability is determined by the government’s investment into the accurate measurement of the tax base. We characterize the optimal level of observability and derive a new expression for...

Die Studie geht zunächst auf die jüngsten Tarifreformen bei der Lohn- und Einkommensteuer ein und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass diese unzureichend waren. So kam es zu Tarifwillkür bei der Freistellung des Existenzminimums und bei den Entlastungen. Zudem wurden die ta-riflichen Entlastungen...