By introducing controlled-foreign-corporation (CFC) rules, the parent country of a multinational firm reserves the right to tax the income of the firm's foreign affiliates, if the tax rate in the affiliate's host country is below a specified threshold. In this paper, we identify the conditions...

The paper analyzes the effects of general consumption taxes levied under alternative tax principles. It is shown that different national tax rates imposed under a general destination principle or a general origin principle create no relative price distortions and no redistributional effects in a...

Die Frage, ob die Umsatzsteuersätze der EG-Mitgliedstaten im Zusammenhang mit der Abschaffung der Grenzkontrollen im Europäischen Binnenmarkt harmonisiert werden sollten, wird aus juristischer und aus ökonomischer Sicht untersucht. Es existiert ein grundlegender Konflikt zwischen der...

We analyze the restricted origin principle for taxing international trade in a three-country, three-commodity model where two of the countries form an economic union. Using simplifying assumptions with respect to the initial tax equilibrium and the structure of preferences, the effects of a...

The paper analyzes the optimal mix of capital and wage taxation when policymakers maximize the political support of workers and capitalists, subject to a fixed revenue requirement. Capital market integration increases the efficiency costs of a tax on capital but simultaneously changes the...

Die Arbeit gibt eine Einführung in die Numerische Allgemeine Gleichgewichtsanalyse anhand des Programmpaketes MPS/GE. Hierdurch sollen die Eintrittskosten von potentiellen Nutzern in diese flexible und mächtige Analysetechnik reduziert werden: Zunächst wird die Vorgehensweise bei der...

There is little doubt that the step towards a monetary union in Europe will increase both the distortionary effects of existing differences in national tax systems and the intensity of tax competition for internationally mobile commodity and factor tax bases. This paper discusses selected issues...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and welfare effects of an anticipated future switch from destination- to origin-based commodity taxation. We set up an intertemporal representative agent model of an open economy and study especially consumption, investment and trade balance responses to...

The Commission of the European Communities has proposed to replace current border tax adjustments at the interaal borders of EC member countries by a set of three distinct measures that comprise an international tax-on-tax deduction of the value-added tax, the harmonization of current...

An optimal taxation approach is employed to discuss the interaction between factor and commodity taxes for a small open economy when both profit-earning firms and domestic consumers are imperfectly mobile internationally. In this framework, we demonstrate two main results: first, a...