The internationalisation of financial accounting and the European Commission's ambition to harmonise corporate taxation have raised the question whether IFRS accounts could be used for tax purposes. In order to quantify the effect of an IFRS-based taxation on corporate tax burdens in different...

Obwohl steuerliche Wertansätze für ökonomische Entscheidungen eines breiten Adressatenkreises bedeutsam sein können, sind sie für externe Bilanzadressaten weitgehend unbekannt. So wäre beispielsweise im Bereich der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre die Durchführung empirischer Studien...

The internationalisation of financial accounting and the European Commission's ambition to harmonise corporate taxation have raised the question whether IFRS accounts could be used for tax purposes. In order to quantify the effect of an IFRS-based taxation on corporate tax burdens in different...

For decades, the German local business tax has been criticised by both economists and politicians. But none of the reform proposals has been realised until now. In this paper we analyse the existing local business tax as well as the most popular reform proposals. They include taxes on value...