To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

Devlet sistemi vergilerle elde edilen ekonomik kaynaklari olmadan calisamaz. Vergilemenin birincil amaci optimal vergi hasilatini etkin sekilde kamu hazinesine aktarilmasini temin etmektir. Vergi guvenlik onlemleri mukelleflerin oz denetimlerini de saglayan bir muessesedir. Turk vergi...

This paper asks two questions concerning Border Tax Adjustments for climate purposes, when viewed from a trade perspective: First, under what conditions are BTAs possible in the WTO-world? To address this issue, the paper provides a detailed discussion of the relevant law and case law. We also...

This paper asks two questions concerning Border Tax Adjustments for climate purposes, when viewed from a trade perspective: First, under what conditions are BTAs possible in the WTO-world? To address this issue, the paper provides a detailed discussion of the relevant law and case law. We also...

A tax amnesty can be a useful tax policy tool when exploited in exceptional circumstances. Amnesties can also be used systematically as a discriminatory mechanism to improve the efficiency or even the equity of the tax system, but only if government commitment to enforcing tax law is credible....

The present paper pretends to approach the concept of a group of companies in a tax field, paying special attention to the meanings given by the tax legislator in every of the main taxes. This way, the references to the concept of group of companies in the Corporate Income Tax are constant,...

Wolfgang Renzsch, Universität Magdeburg, weist auf die Probleme bei der Bestimmung des Finanzbedarfs der Länder und Gemeinden hin.

I consider optimal nonlinear taxation of income and bequests with a joy-of-giving bequest motive and explicitly characterize the optimal estate tax rate. The optimal formula trades off correction of externality from giving and discouraging effort of children due to income effect generated by...

The strong dislike evidenced by the American public towards the estate tax suggests that the wealthy wish to transfer resources to their heirs tax-free and would thus exploit mechanisms allowing them to reduce the tax burden whenever possible. However, I find strong evidence that the wealthy...

Over three-quarters of US taxpayers receive income tax refunds, which are effectively zero-interest loans to the government. Previous explanations include precautionary and/or forced savings motives. I present evidence on a third explanation: inertia. I find that following a change in tax...