This paper analyses the optimal taxation of dividends and other types of income from portfolio investment. We show that, in an open economy, it is not desirable to offer double taxation relief for dividends paid by domestic firms to domestic households. This result holds for fairly general...

The governments of nearly all industrialised countries use subsidies to support the economic development of specific sectors or regions with high rates of unemployment. Conventional economic wisdom would suggest that the most efficient way to support these regions or sectors is to pay employment...

This text surveys the literature on the implications of international capital mobility for national tax policies. Our main issue for consideration in this survey is whether taxation of income, specifically capital income will survive, how border crossing investment is taxed relative to domestic...

This paper analyzes the effect of labor-tax progression on employment and welfare in an economy with a unionized labor market. The government influences wage bargaining through its tax policies. Wages can be reduced by increasing the marginal labor-tax rate. If there are no restrictions on...

In many OECD countries, statutory corporate tax rates are lower than personal income tax rates. This tax rate difference is often particularly large for small firms. The present paper argues that a reduction of the corporate tax rate below the personal tax rate is an optimal tax policy if there...

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Gegenwärtig wird eine Abschaffung bzw. Einschränkung der 620-DM-Beschäftigungsverhältnisse diskutiert. Dr. Clemens Fuest und Professor Bernd Huber analysieren die möglichen Auswirkungen für den Arbeitsmarkt und das Sozialsystem und schlagen alternativ eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform...

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In the framework of an efficiency-wage model, Hoel [Journal of Economics (1990) 51: 89-99] argues that a reduction in the marginal income-tax rate reduces employment. The present note shows that this result depends on how the tax reform is assumed to change the burden per worker. If the tax...

Seit einigen Jahren setzen auch deutsche Unternehmen zunehmend Aktienoptionen als *\" Entlohnungsinstrument ein. Wie werden Aktienoptionen gegenwärtig steuerlich behandelt? Besteht im Zuge der Steuerreform ein steuerpolitischer Handlungsbedarf?