Houben, Henriette; Maiterth, Ralf - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 82 (2013) 1, pp. 147-175
The popular idea of increasing the inheritance tax revenue via a tax-rate-cut-cum-base-broadeningpolicy is based on … macroeconomic estimates. These models apply national wealth and life tables to assess the size of aggregate inheritance …. Microeconomic estimates based on the German Inheritance Tax Statistics and the SOEP deliver significantly lower aggregate …