Main description: Rudolf Oster gibt eine umfassende Übersicht über die Auswirkungen von Umlagen im Finanzausgleich zwischen den Kommunen. Die weiteren Beiträge behandeln Auswirkungen der Gewinnbesteuerung. Christian Keuschnigg zeigt, daß Investitionen im Inland gehemmt werden können und...

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identication. Using event study designs and differences-in-dierences models, we fins that workers bear about half of the total tax burden. Administrative...

In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the wage incidence of the German business tax, which is set at the municipal level. For our analysis, we use very rich administrative linked employer-employee panel data, covering 11 years, and link it to data on the business tax rates of about...