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The church tax revenue in 2022 was estimated at 13 billion euros. This is an increase of around 300 million euros … compared to 2021. The Catholic Church accounted for around 6.8 billion euros in 2022, and the Protestant Church around 6 …
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Obwohl die Anzahl der Mitglieder in der katholischen und evangelischen Kirche in der Vergangenheit kontinuierlich …
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Kirchensteuer gibt es regional unterschiedliche Kappungssätze. Nach Auffassung des Autors begibt sich die Kirche damit in …At Easter representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and of the German Protestant Church argued for more … funding for the church, the church tax, is directly linked to income. However, for top earners an alternative tax scale …
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-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving … church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between the church tax and charitable giving for church members, but not … for the church-leavers. In contrast to church members, donations of church-leavers and non-members are also highly …
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The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...
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The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...
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The elasticity of taxable income has gained increasing attention as a fiscal policy parameter. This paper provides empirical evidence for Germany and adds to the relatively small body of literature for European countries. We use a large new panel data set to analyze the taxable income response...
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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
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During the last decade, several EU countries have tried to tackle unemployment and low activity rates through extensive tax cuts. In an effort to encourage the taking up of work - especially amongst the less productive workers - policymakers have shown increasing interest in targeted tax and...
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The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299807