The trend of increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth in most developed countries has led to calls for corrective tax increases for the rich and wealthy. Such calls are often confronted with the claim that higher taxes on top personal incomes, corporate income and wealth...

In most OECD countries the redistributive effect of the tax system has been substantially weakened by deliberate tax policies over the last decades. Despite some signs that this trend may have recently come to a halt a comprehensive policy change is not underway. One major argument brought...

The trend of increasing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth in most developed countries has led to calls for corrective tax increases for the rich and wealthy. Such calls are often confronted with the claim that higher taxes on top personal incomes, corporate income and wealth...

Budgetary pressures and the debate on increasing inequality caused by the global financial and economic crisis have also revived public and scholarly interest in tax policies. While some international coordination attempts aim at a more effective enforcement of existing tax laws, a number of...

Looking back, the debt brake for the German federal government's budget seems a great success story: The targets for net borrowing were met with a wide margin each year, the budget was consolidated extremely fast since 2010 and the debt brake served as a role model for the Fiscal Compact at the...

Die Schuldenbremse des Bundes erscheint im Rückblick als große Erfolgsgeschichte: Ständige Übererfüllung der Vorgaben für die Nettokreditaufnahme, extrem rasche Konsolidierung seit 2010, Nachahmung durch den EU-Fiskalpakt auf europäischer Ebene. Doch der Schein trügt. - Die extrem rasche...

Budgetary pressures and the debate on increasing inequality caused by the global financial and economic crisis have also revived public and scholarly interest in tax policies. While some international coordination attempts aim at a more effective enforcement of existing tax laws, a number of...

Die Corona-Krise hat die deutsche Wirtschaft in die tiefste Rezession seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gestürzt. Aufgrund der weltweiten Verbreitung sind Lieferketten gestört und der internationale Handel erheblich beeinträchtigt, was die exportabhängige deutsche Wirtschaft besonders stark trifft....