We investigate how personal income taxes affect the portfolio share of personal wealth that entrepreneurs invest in their own business. In a reformulation of the standard portfolio choice model that allows for underreporting of private business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in...

We consider the issue of steady-state optimal factor taxation in a Ramsey-type dynamic general equilibrium setting with two distinct distortions: i) taxes on capital and labour are the only available tax instruments for raising revenues, and ii) labour markets are subject to a static...

We propose an equity finance model with agency problems and investigate the relationship between dividend taxation and inefficient investments. Contrary to both the old and the new view of dividend taxation, a fall in the dividend tax rate is found to improve corporate governance by increasing...

The influence of capital gains taxes on investment decisions is a central issue of accounting and public finance research. However, the implications of capital gains taxes on investors' willingness to invest in irreversible projects with entry and exit flexibility have not yet been a focal...

In this paper we quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic, uninsurable income shocks, where households also differ permanently with respect to their ability to generate income. The welfare criterion we employ is...

In der Diskussion um eine Reform der Einkommensbesteuerung hat das ifo Institut jüngst in einem Gutachten eine Besteuerung der Zinseinkünfte in Frage gestellt, da dies einer Bestrafung der Zukunftsvorsorge gleichkomme und die Kapitalbildung diskriminiere. Professor Gerold Krause-Junk und...

Die Steuerbelastung von Unternehmens- und Vermögenseinkommen hat sich im Vergleich zur Belastung der Arbeitnehmerentgelte seit 1980 mehr als halbiert. Worauf ist die sinkende Steuerbelastung von Unternehmens- und Vermögenseinkommen zurückzuführen? Wie sollten die Unternehmen angesichts der...

Competitive pressure on some capital income tax rates reinforces a generic quadrilemma or a four-way tradeoff in domestic income taxation. To maintain competitiveness, governments have to cut some tax rates on capital income down to international standards. If these cuts lead to a de-alignment...

Under the Nordic dual income tax system, the taxpayer's total tax bill depends not only on his total income but also on the division of that income between capital income and labor income. This has created new room for tax avoidance, especially for active owners of (closed) corporations. For...