Die Unternehmensbesteuerung in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union ist bishernicht harmonisiert. Gravierende Unterschiede bestehen sowohl in den Bemessungsgrundlagenals auch in den Steuersätzen. Aus der großen Bandbreite der Gewinnsteuersätze fürKapitalgesellschaften, die derzeit...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

We set up a neoclassical growth model extended by a corporate sector, aninvestment and finance decision of firms, and a set of taxes on capital income. We provideanalytical dynamic scoring of taxes on corporate income, dividends, capital gains, otherprivate capital income, and depreciation...

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems onthe size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revivesthe traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. Itovercomes the limitations of...

There are substantial differences in output per worker across states that persist over time. This studydemonstrates that differences in state taxation of capital income, capital ownership, and consumption canexplain why differences in labor productivity can persist. First, state tax policies...

This paper analyzes the impact of taxes and lending conditions on the financial structure ofmultinationals' foreign affiliates. The empirical analysis employs a large panel of affiliates ofGerman multinationals in 26 countries in the period from 1996 until 2003. In accordance withthe theoretical...

Die Besteuerung von Kapitaleinkommen im deutschen Ertragsteuerrecht erfolgt nichtfinanzierungsneutral. Der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirt-schaftlichen Entwicklung hatte im Vorfeld der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008/09 einfinanzierungsneutrales Körperschaftsteuersystem...

The European Commission proposed to replace the currently existing Separate Accountingby an EU-wide tax system based on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB).Besides the CCCTB, there is an alternative tax reform proposal, the European Tax AllocationSystem (ETAS). In a dynamic capital...

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage ofcorporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for theperiod 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany.The financial...

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effectivecorporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return microdata for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate taxreform in Germany....