The paper surveys the characteristics of the common European VAT system, proposed by the EU-Commission to overcome the weaknesses of the transitional European VAT system, which was enacted in 1993 and is still in force. We argue that a harmonized VAT rate will generate substantial costs for EU...

Die neue Arbeitsteilung im Europäischen Binnenmarkt umfaßt auch die Zuordnung finanzpolitischer Kompetenzen an die supranationale EU-Ebene zulasten der Gebietskörperschaftsebenen in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Gemeinschaft. Aus dem EU-Vertrag lassen sich konstitutive Elemente eines...

The paper comments on the introduction of a final withholding tax on certain forms of capital income in Austria in the early nineties. Economic and legal problems of the reform measures are discussed and they* are appraised as policy responses to weak points of the traditional comprehensive...

International policy coordination has been one of the fastgrowing research topics in open-economy macroeconomics in the eighties. Recommendations of economic theory towards coordination of macropolicy at a supranational level, taken up as a guideline in the negotiations of the leading economic...