The tax and fiscal reforms headed by German finance minister Matthias Erzberger in 1919 and 1920 fundamentally reshaped German public finances. The total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, or tax-to-GDP ratio, doubled and increased continually until the end of World War II. Since the 1950s, the...

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes and contributions which is often seen as a main challenge for the economic performance of the welfare state in terms of growth and unemployment. Especially the progressive...

Despite its theoretical merits, Land Value Taxation (LVT) is not a common policy instrument in most countries. One of the main reasons is uncertainty regarding its distributional impacts. This uncertainty has not been settled by the literature, due to a lack of appropriate data at the household...

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes and contributions which is often seen as a main challenge for the economic performance of the welfare state. In this paper, we analyse the progressivity and redistribution...

Die Verteilungswirkungen des Steuer- und Transfersystems in Deutschland werden in der politischen Debatte vermehrt diskutiert. Die Fragen, wer finanziert zu welchem Anteil staatliche Aufgaben und wer profitiert von der Umverteilung, sind entscheidend bei der Beurteilung von...

Mit einem Steuer-Transfer-Modell, das die Entwicklung seit 1950 abbildet, werden verschiedene Fragestellungen inter- und intragenerativer Umverteilung aus den Bereichen der Bildungsökonomie, der Familienpolitik und der Alterssicherung bearbeitet. Anders als in üblichen Ansätzen werden dabei...

This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...