wages, assume that a higher employee-borne tax burden reduces effort. In turn, this raises a firm's production costs and … reduces efficiency. Accordingly, we show that a higher employee-borne income tax negatively influences a multinational …'s profit by reducing manager effort. Furthermore, we compile data on personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year …

personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year 2002. In particular, we determine the component of labor taxes which …, we calculate the progressivity of personal income tax rates between the average wage and five times the average wage …. This may be interpreted as the tax progression which is relevant for well-paid workers. Then, we use the personal income …

This paper analyses the implications of a currently publicly debated issue, namely the introduction of a bonus tax. We … shed light on the effects of the bonus tax on compensation components and study its incidence. We use the Principal Agent … based compensation component always rises in the country introducing the tax such that the optimal contracts are tilted …

various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the firm-specific labor tax base so that they may be relatively … location of 35,206 firms to analyze the impact of labor income tax rates, the progressivity of the income tax schedule, and … progressivity of the tax system and higher (employee- and employer-borne) social security contributions negatively influence a …

This paper analyses the switch to an ACE or to a CBIT type of tax system starting from the present German tax system …. We show that in case an ACE type of reform is financed by an increase in the VAT and not in the profit tax, it might be … preferred to a CBIT even in the context of an open economy. Moreover, the required exogenous increase in the profit tax rate …

: quarterly fiscal variables on accrual basis and a time series estimate of tax evasion for the period 1981:1-2006:4. Following … unless the dynamics of the hidden and regular components of the GDP are disentangled. Changes in public spending and the tax … rate generate a reallocation from underground to the regular economy which contributes to obscure the spending and tax …

This paper contributes to the GDP-consumption comovement puzzle literature investigating the role of tax evasion in … Keynesian DSGE model combining tax evasion with financial frictions à la Bernanke, Gertler, Gilchrist (1999). The main result of … our paper shows that tax evasion can considerably shrink the GDP-consumption comovement puzzle area. …