Im September 2016 hatten die Finanzminister der Länder ein Modell für die Reform der Grundsteuer auf den Weg gebracht. Sie war notwendig geworden, nachdem der Bundesfinanzhof die alten Einheitswerte als Bemessungsgrundlage für die Grundsteuer verworfen hatte. Nach Widerstand aus Bayern und...

Die Einheitsbewertung des Grundvermögens für die Erhebung der Grundsteuer wurde im April 2018 vom Bundesverfassungsgericht als mit dem Grundrecht auf Gleichbehandlung nicht vereinbar befunden. Die Einheitsbewertung muss nun bis zum 31.12.2019 neu geregelt werden. Wird dies unterlassen, fällt...

Rational individuals know that present government debts transform into higher future taxes. The Ricardian equivalence implies that the burden of the debt is not shifted between generations because of compensating intergenerational transfers. While the assumptions for Ricardian equivalence to...

Public debts capitalize into property prices. Therefore, property owners tend to favor tax over debt financing for government spending. In contrast, tenants do not suffer from debt capitalization. Thus, they tend to favor debt over tax financing. Our model of the resulting democratic fight...

Real income on Bornholm is described by comparing the region with the capital area and the country. Region specific prices are constructed for housing expenditure and for services. Weights for these parts of household budgets and the residual are found from panel surveys of household...

The paper gives an overview over four papers (chapters) dealing with the business cycle for the economy of Bornholm, 1987 to 1996. As a reference is used two regions in the capital area and the country as a whole. At the centre of interest is the labor market. The basic description is in chapter...

The taxation of property based on market values requires frequent appraisals for a large number of properties. In light of the recent property tax reform discussion in Germany, it has been argued that a valuebased tax therefore cannot be implemented at a reasonable cost. In several other...

2018 wurde das bisherige Verfahren der Grundsteuererhebung als verfassungswidrig erklärt. Den Bundesländern ist bis Ende 2024 Zeit für eine Neukonzeption der Grundsteuer eingeräumt worden. Baden-Württemberg hat eine Vorreiterrolle eingenommen und sich auf ein Bodenwertmodell festgelegt, das...

Do citizens legislate different tax policies than parliaments? We provide quasi-experimental evidence for causal effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences,...

Using two decades of American Housing Survey data from 1985 to 2005, we estimate the influence of negative home equity and rising mortgage interest rates on household mobility. We find that both factors lead to lower, not higher, mobility rates over time. The effects are economically large —...