The author writes that state tax revenue grew by 3.1 percent in the April-June quarter of 2003 over tax revenue in the same quarter of 2002. The April-June quarter of 2003 was the strongest quarter of growth since January-March 2001; however, almost all of the growth in the quarter resulted from net...

The paper deals with a summary of findings in the area of tax forecasts. It describes the basic methodology for predicting tax revenues, both in terms of the macroeconomic approach and from a microeconomic perspective. The microeconomic approach used microsimulation methods with methods based on...

Der Arbeitskreis "Steuerschätzungen" hat seine Steueraufkommensprognosen leicht nach oben revidiert. Ausschlaggebend waren die geänderte Einschätzung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Lage durch die Bundesregierung und der gute Verlauf des Steueraufkommens der vergangenen Monate. Sie dürfte in...