Search Results - subject:"Income tax"

Tackling spillovers by taxing corporate income in the European Union at source

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2016 - This version 18 February 2016

This paper surveys and evaluates the corporation tax (CT) systems of the Member States of the European Union on the basis of a comprehensive taxonomy of actual and potential regimes, which have as their base either profits, profits and interest, or economic rents. The current regimes give rise...

Taxation of pensions in Portugal : is there a rationale for a semi-dual income tax system?

Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura - 2016

The semi-dual income tax typically combines a progressive tax schedule for labour and pension income with low and often … adoption of semi-dual income tax in the taxation of public, occupational and private pensions and other retirement income …-sharing concerns. Moving to a semi-dual income tax offers both advantages and disadvantages in addressing the pension system long term …

Why is the long-run tax on capital income zero? : explaining the Chamley-Judd result

Jacobs, Bas; Rusu, Alexandra Victoria - 2017

Why is it optimal not to tax capital income in the long-run in Chamley (1986) and Judd (1985)? This paper demonstrates that the answer follows standard intuitions from the commodity tax literature. In the steady state, Engel curves for consumption are linear in labour earnings, irrespective of...

International tax reforms with flexible prices

Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2018

Sachzuwendungen im Geschäftsleben - Missstände der einkommensteuerrechtlichen Behandlung und Reformvorschläge

Wolfersdorff, Janine von - 2018

The elasticity of taxable income : a meta-regression analysis

Neisser, Carina - 2017

The elasticities of taxable (ETI) and broad income (EBI) are key parameters in optimal tax and welfare analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis of elasticities that measure behavioral responses to income...

Assessment of the 2017 tax reform for acceleration and inclusion

Manasan, Rosario - 2017

the structure of the personal income tax, value-added tax, and excise tax on petroleum products and automobiles, while …

The history and development of Canada's personal income tax : zero to 50 in 100 years

Watson, William G. (ed.); Clemens, Jason (ed.) - 2017

Frictions and taxpayer responses : evidence from bunching at personal tax thresholds

Adam, Stuart; Browne, James; Phillips, David; Roantree, … - 2017

We investigate bunching at personal tax thresholds over a 40-year period. At kinks, where the marginal tax rate rises, we find bunching among company owner-managers and the self-employed, but not those with only employment income. Notches, where the average rate rises, provide compelling...

Reformnotwendigkeit und Reformalternativen für den Einkommensteuertarif

Houben, Henriette; Chirvi, Malte - 2017