Eine Steuerreform in Deutschland wird sowohl von Seiten der Wissenschaft als auch von Parteien vorgeschlagen. Mithilfe einer Fortschreibung der Ergebnisse der Lohnsteuerstatistik 1998 werden die finanziellen Auswirkungen der Einführung alternativer Steuertarife (u.a. der von F. Merz, H. O....

Tax reform is a permanent topic of the economic policy debate in Germany. The paper presents a radical reform proposal (as well as a survey of other proposals) and describes some steps towards the realization of the proposal. The tax system proposed mainly consists of a value added tax, a flat...

Tax reform in Germany is proposed by political parties as well as by specific research groups. The gross wage income distributions for different groups of taxpayers are used to find out the consequences of introducing alternative rules of taxation for the wage income tax revenues. The results...