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analyse tax policy reforms, including in particular pension and demographic issues. The main feature of the EDGE-M3 model lies … the greatest extent possible. In particular, it includes the richness of the tax code by means of income tax and social … insurance contribution rate functions estimated using data from the EUROMOD microsimulation model. This feature allows in …
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This paper compares the distributional effects of price cap and lump sum transfer policies to aid the affordability of subsistence electricity consumption. A lump sum transfer is more progressive than a comparable price cap on all units of electricity. We identify conditions under which these...
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tax in Germany is going on. With respect to the r educed top tax rate of 42 percent in a meantime and now 45 percent high … income earners seem to be privileged. However, focusing solely on the top income tax rate is an inadequate limitation of the … redistributive effects of the income tax are ignored. Furthermore, defining income brackets in nominal terms has an entirely …
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Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to … microsimulation, we compare both methods. Investigating tax scale effects by the group model leads to very good results. Determining … the financial effects of modified tax bases, the deviation from the microsimulation results increases especially if tax …
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Nachbildung des Steuersystems wird mit der Technik der Mikrosimulation vollzogen. FiFoSiM enthält weiterhin ein ökonometrisch …
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clarifies the aspects of taxes that should be considered in an optimal tax system construction. These include solutions which … stimulate taxpayer behavior, the economically and socially oriented objectives of taxation, and guides needed for tax … equalization. The conclusions are focused on the tax rates in personal and corporate income tax and their influence on economic …
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. It shows the main point of view on public fiscal policy especially in the case of personal income tax and creates a …, the last part of the work is a study on fiscal level and tax system structures and economic growth. In this part the … authors checks two points of view on taxation. The first is that a low level tax burden is conducive to economic growth, and …
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The current fiscal imbalances and fragilities in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMC) are the result of decades of instability, but have become more visible since 2008, when a combination of adverse economic and political shocks (the global and European financial crises, Arab...
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Closely following the seminal contribution of Jappelli and Pistaferri (2014) - based on Italian household survey data - we employ data of 22 European countries to assess the role of heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) for fiscal policy in the Euro area. We document an...
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The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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