This paper develops a model of a small open economy that produces an export good with domestic labour and imported energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue-neutral green tax reform that substitutes energy for wage...

This paper develops a model of a small open economy that produces an export good with domestic labour and imported energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue-neutral green tax reform that substitutes energy for wage...

The recent U.S. international tax reforms are a hodgepodge of nominal and effective tax rate reductions, a poorly designed export subsidy and unnecessarily complex revenue raising tax base protections. The most significant “international” change in the 2017 U.S. tax legislation is the...

Die Studie, erstellt vom ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, analysiert die aktuellen steuerpolitischen Forderungen und deren Folgen für den Steuerwettbewerb. Deutschland weist laut Studie aktuell eine um neun Prozentpunkte höhere Steuerbelastung für Unternehmen...