article describes which data sources are used for the simulation, how key features of the German tax and transfer system are …This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic … Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating …

By how much will faster economic growth boost government revenue? This paper estimates short- and long-run tax buoyancy … in OECD countries between 1965 and 2012. We find that, for aggregate tax revenues, short-run tax buoyancy does not … significantly differ from one in the majority of countries; yet, it has increased since the late 1980s so that tax systems have …

stabilise the debt ratio in the medium term and fund unmet public services needs. The tax-benefit system needs to be redesigned … around half of total tax revenues, but are levied on small tax bases, partly reflecting the unequal distribution of income …. Only the value-added tax has a relatively broad basis combined with a moderate tax rate. There is some scope to raise …

The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage …. However, the efficiency costs of the system are substantial. Taxes and benefits combine to face income earners with high … effective tax rates and the unemployed with little reward from moving into employment, resulting in a declining intensity in the …

The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … multi-level government structure that shares national tax revenues through a system of tax sharing and transfers, and …, though they have some non-tax revenue from fees, levies and penalties. They can also spend the profit from the sale of land …

This paper assesses the macroeconomic and distributional impact of personal income tax (PIT) reforms in the U … marginal tax rates; (ii) PIT cuts do 'trickle-down' the income distribution: tax cuts stimulate demand for non …-tradable services which raise the wages and employment prospects of low-skilled workers even if the tax cut is not directly incident on …

Using the post-WWII data of U.S. federal corporate income tax changes, within a Smooth Transition VAR, this paper finds … that the output effect of capital income tax cuts is government debt-dependent: it is less expansionary when debt is high … than when it is low. To explore the mechanisms that can drive this fiscal state-dependent tax effect, the paper uses a DSGE …

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first … surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the … that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it …

expectations, while an increase in personal income tax shocks is inflationary for mediumrun. A surprise increase in gasoline prices …