The transformation of the GDR to a market economy is supported by the adoption of the West German tax system. There is evidence, however, that the adoption approach is a costly way of changing the tax structure of a country in transition. Nevertheless in the paper the implementation of the...

There is little doubt that the step towards a monetary union in Europe will increase both the distortionary effects of existing differences in national tax systems and the intensity of tax competition for internationally mobile commodity and factor tax bases. This paper discusses selected issues...

The paper comments on the introduction of a final withholding tax on certain forms of capital income in Austria in the early nineties. Economic and legal problems of the reform measures are discussed and they* are appraised as policy responses to weak points of the traditional comprehensive...

The closing of tax loopholes is one important instrument for fiscal consolidation. We concentrate on the value added tax exemption of banking services in Germany. The potential tax revenue under full value added taxation cannot be estimated from national accounting data, as it is necessary to...

This volume collects three independent contributions which discuss the role of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling in both research and teaching. The first paper by John Chipman suggests that statistical methods could be incorporated into CGE analysis. He argues that this would allow...

An optimal taxation approach is employed to discuss the interaction between factor and commodity taxes for a small open economy when both profit-earning firms and domestic consumers are imperfectly mobile internationally. In this framework, we demonstrate two main results: first, a...

Die Arbeit analysiert die finanzpolitische Entwicklung der Jahre 1989 und 1990 in Österreich. Neben einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Betrachtung des öffentlichen Sektors sowie der öffentlichen Haushalte von Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungsträgern bildet der Bundeshaushalt traditionell...

Die neue Arbeitsteilung im Europäischen Binnenmarkt umfaßt auch die Zuordnung finanzpolitischer Kompetenzen an die supranationale EU-Ebene zulasten der Gebietskörperschaftsebenen in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Gemeinschaft. Aus dem EU-Vertrag lassen sich konstitutive Elemente eines...

The note shows that the equivalence property of VAT regimes can be extended to mixed origin / destination regimes with a common border tax, which contain the non-reciprocal restricted origin principle of Lockwood/de Meza/Myles (1994a) as a special case. The common border tax rate reduces the...

Die Arbeit analysiert die finanzpolitische Entwicklung der österreichischen Volkswirtschaft in den Jahren 1991 bis 1993. Neben einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Betrachtung des öffentlichen Sektors sowie der Haushalte von Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungsträgern bildet die Finanzpolitik...