At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen member nations. The opponents of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and excise tax revenue of individual countries. In their...

Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...

The abolition of intra-EU duty free was critically discussed and accompanied by a vigorous and well-financed lobbying campaign by the duty free industry. The opponents of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs and hardly reduced the value added and excise tax...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Existenz der sogenannten "Kinderstrafsteuern" für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die Jahre 1990 bis 2002 und quantifiziert das damit verbundene Ausmaß der finanziellen Belastung von Familien mit Kindern gegenüber Kinderlosen. - Nach Darstellung der...

The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of Single Market has further encouraged firms' and households' evasive behaviour in paying value added taxes in the EU Member States, whereas such efforts have traditionally been...

Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...

Local innovation networks have been considered to be particularly important to innovation and technological change and to the growth prospects of regions and cities in Germany. Accordingly, innovation is a process that results from various (economic and social) interactions of different...

In der Europäischen Union dominiert trotz des gemeinsamen Marktes immer noch das Bestimmungslandprinzip die Umsatzbesteuerung. Erhebungstechnisch wurde 1993 jedoch das Übergangssystem eingeführt. Mit dem Ziel der Schaffung eines endgültigen Systems verbindet sich der Wechsel vom...