Mit der Steuerreform 2000 wurde das ambitionierteste Steuerreduktionsvorhaben in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte beschlossen. In den Jahren von 1998 bis 2005 werden Steuerzahler von einer Nettoentlastung von insgesamt mehr als 100 Mrd. DM profitieren. Man erwartet hierdurch eine Stimulation...

Die aktuelle Steuerreform 2000/2005 und alternative Vorschläge dazu neben einen prominenten Platz in der aktuellen wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion ein. Die Frage nach den individuellen Wirkungen auf die Steuerpflichtigen ist neben den beiden traditionell geprägten Leitideen der...

This contribution analyzes the personal income distribution with the actual microdata of the German Income Tax Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and employees. New are the first longitudinal results based...

With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post-war history. In the period from 1998 to 2005, taxpayers will benefit substantially from net tax relief more than DM 100 billions in total. It is expected, that private...

With the data of the de facto anonymised Income Tax Statistics 1998 (FAST 98), the German official statistics are for the first time publishing microdata from the field of fiscal statistics. The scientific community can use these data to analyse politically-relevant questions on the fiscal and...

Analysis about the structure and allocation of a phenomenon need micro data - individual data of the affected people. In our contribution we introduce a new mighty resource of micro data for income analysis: The Income Tax Statistic with anonymized individual data of approximately 30 million...

Based on comparisons between the former German tax system and the tax reform of 2000/2005 and other tax systems which were up for discussion this study investigates the (re-) distribution effects on the self employed (professions and entrepreneurs) and other socioeconomic groups. Additional the...