This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the...

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to modern day taxation issues. It presents a thorough overview of many of the crucial aspects of applied taxation and current tax systems, and presents evidence that supports taxation as an important policy issue requiring immediate address globally....

The editor has assembled a stellar group of experts to write about their areas of expertise. Topics include bureaucracy, corruption and tax compliance, public finance in developing economies, taxation in several former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and China, taxation in the enlarged European...

u.a.: Ägypten: Geburtsstunde der Betriebsprüfer.- Persien: Mit dem Zehnten wird Eure Seele aller Höllenqualen ledig.- Römisches Reich: "... dass sich ein jedermann schätzen ließe ...".- Frankenreich: Quod non capit Christus, capit fiscus -- Kreuzzüge: Saladinzehnt, Himmelssteuer,...

Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors – despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural...

Innovationen und Entrepreneurship -- Innovationen und Steuersysteme -- Rahmenbedingungen der Steuerpolitik in der EU -- Steuern, Innovationen, Entrepreneurship und Wachstum -- Empirische Analyse der Innovationsaktivität in Europa.

Vorgaben für eine grenzüberschreitende Unternehmensbesteuerung -- Internationale Steuerplanung grenzüberschreitender Konzerne -- Der Einfluss der Rechtsprechung des EuGH auf die Möglichkeiten internationaler Steuerplanung -- Die Wohnsitzbesteuerung als umfassender Lösungsvorschlag --...

This paper presents new evidence on the impact of the preferential treatment of owner-occupied housing in Europe. We find that tax benefits to homeowners reduce the user cost of housing capital by almost 40 percent compared to the efficient level under neutral taxation. On average, the tax...

We characterize the Laffer curves for labor taxation and capital income taxation quantitatively for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries by comparing the balanced growth paths of a neoclassical growth model featuring "constant Frisch elasticity" (CFE) preferences. We derive...