growth enhancing tax and expenditure reform. We quantitatively illustrate that this reform based strategy, by reaping … yet avoids increasing tax rates. With slow consolidation, marginal tax rates are reduced right from the beginning. …

We characterize the second-best allocation in a Mirrleesian optimal tax model where agents differ in multiple … dimensions and the planner can tax multiple goods non-linearly. We develop a new method that allows us to solve the partial … properties of the optimum. First, the optimal tax system is described by a multidimensional version of Diamond’s (1998) and Saez …

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in the …

expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …. However, the tax benefit system and discretionary policy responses to the crisis act as important income stabilizers, since …

-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the …

. Despite broadening the tax base only the income distribution's top decile benefits from the proposed flat tax rate. Due to …In this contribution we analyze Paul Kirchhof's income tax policy proposal with regard to conflicting goals of tax … revenue, distributional effects and efficiency considerations. While effects on labor supply are moderate, the tax policy …

the development in effective marginal tax rates and participation tax rates, and estimates, using the difference …-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … for reforming the Swedish tax system to improve its labour market impacts. We suggest better targeting the earned income …

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be … reviews the political economics literature on tax systems and reforms to see whether political mechanisms allow us to better … understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …

Tax competition between member states tends to result in an erosion as well as a convergence of enterprise taxation in … the EU. Besides statutory tax rates, several other characteristics of national enterprise tax systems are gradually … reduction of the tax burden on profits and capital income vis-à-vis labour income. At the same time enterprise taxes are …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …