The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

Der Finanzmarkt zieht uns das Geld aus der Tasche. Unfairer Umgang mit Sparvermögen und unserer Altersvorsorge, gigantischer Steuerbetrug und dreiste Immobilienspekulation machen uns das Leben schwer. Eine fehlgesteuerte Finanzindustrie birgt Crashgefahr und schafft immer neue Probleme - bei...

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...