This paper contains a comparative international tax incidence study, investigating taxation and its effects on income redistribution in West Germany, Sweden, and the United States.

Identifies, examines, and finds remedies for three forms of potential inconsistency that can arise in the Pechman-Musgrave method of estimating the distribution of the total tax burden using microdata sets. Several variants of shifting assumptions are formulated for analysis, in which the...

This paper examines the quantitative effects of the transitional system of value-added taxation for intra-EC trade after 1992, as recently adopted by the ECOFIN-Council. First, the administration of the current destination principle and the interim solution are described and a mathematical...