We analyse the deadweight losses of tax-induced labor misallocation in an equilibrium model of the labour market where workers search to climb a job ladder and firms post vacancies. Workers differ in abilities. Jobs differ in productivities and amenities. A planner uses affine tax functions to...

The political economy literature highlights the redistribution of resources to political support groups - often along regional or ethnic lines - as a dominant feature of political systems. Against this assumption, Kasara (2007) documents a puzzling result of discriminatory rent extraction by...

While assessing the economic impacts of corruption, the corruption-related transmission channels which influence taxation as such have to be duly considered. Taking the example of the Czech Republic, this article aims to evaluate the impacts corruption has on the size of the shadow economy as...

A common conclusion in the literature is that both corruption and taxation hamper economic growth. It is also plausible that both affect total factor productivity, which, by the famous Solow residual, is a vital driver of economic progress. Moreover, corruption and tax burden are supposed to be...

The article aims to compare the taxation of the self‑employed in Poland and other EU countries. We show that, for years, Poland has been at the forefront of EU countries with the highest self‑employment rates. Our analysis indicates that many people in Poland chose the status of...

Im Rahmen einer Querschnittsanalyse wird die Steuer- und Abgabenlast in Deutschland auf Haushaltsebene für 2018 untersucht. Neben der Belastung nach Haushaltseinkommen wird die Belastung nach der Konsumhöhe betrachtet. Schließlich wird der Beitrag unterschiedlicher Einkommensgruppen zur...

By exploiting country-by-country reports (CBCRs) prepared according to the OECD BEPS Action 13's minimum standards and voluntarily published by multinational corporations (MNCs), we show that the CBCR data can be used to identify how much MNCs pay in taxes and where, as well as how important tax...

Globalisation and the fast-approaching digitalisation increase capital as well as labour mobility fostering tax competition among countries worldwide. Based on a unique dataset, we analyse the development of effective tax burdens on corporations and highly skilled labour for 26 OECD countries...

How much fiscal space do Latin American countries have to increase their tax burdens in the long term? This paper provides an answer through Laffer curves estimates for taxes on labor, capital, and consumption for the six largest emerging economies of the region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,...

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...

This paper aims to assess the impact of the effective and nominal household tax burden on household deposits in Ukrainian banks. We used the effective tax burden, which includes personal income taxes and value-added tax (VAT) paid. We considered changes in Ukrainian tax law from 2003 to 2016,...

In der politischen Debatte wird teilweise argumentiert, dass die Erbschaftsteuer die bessere Vermögensteuer sei. Da eine Bewertung von Vermögensgegenständen nicht jährlich, sondern im besten Fall nur einmal pro Generation erfolgen muss, sind die Erhebungs- und Befolgungskosten bei der...

The diverse tax burdens and economic situations of EU member states are causing investors to relocate their investments to countries that offer better tax conditions and a better economic environment. The total amount of corporate tax revenue is therefore influenced by tax, macroeconomic and...

Germany's tax system places a relatively strong emphasis on direct taxes, particularly on labour. At the same time, revenues from the inheritance and gift tax are relatively low. This points towards a large-scale transfer of wealth from one generation to the next that is largely untaxed and...

Die Idee eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens (BGE) ist mittlerweile in der öffentlichen Diskussion angekommen. Ein Grundeinkommen ist ein monetärer Transfer, dessen Höhe die Existenz des Individuums absichert und seine Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft ermöglicht. Die Auszahlung erfolgt ohne...

Debates about the taxation of business owners often center around the distributional impacts of these taxes and the degree to which they affect workers. The majority of business income in the U.S. is earned by pass-through businesses and taxed subject to the personal income tax system, yet the...

For economic support of small and mid-sized businesses amid the pandemic, some mechanisms as regards insurance contributions have been introduced: it was declared about the extension of the deadline for payments, provision of deferrals and options to pay by installments and reduced rates. We...

The paper addresses the issues of regional and export competitiveness of the countries in the same region with similar level of economic development with regard to labor costs borne by employers. Research results demonstrate that the country with higher labor costs shows lower export indicators...

We quantify the net effect of recent U.S. tax reform on the tax rates of public U.S. corporations and find they decreased by 7.5 to 11.4 percentage points on average following tax reform. Further, we separately examine the effect of tax reform on purely domestic firms and multinational firms...

Life cycle and insurance-type considerations dominate redistribution policy. Wage and fiscal prospects of ageing dominate migration policy. The paper compares distinct policy regimes, directed at migration and redistribution issues. Migration quotas, provision of social benefits, labor income...

This article comprehensively reviews Australia's corporate income tax complexity as faced by multinational corporations (MNCs) and compares it to the average of the remaining OECD countries. Building on unique survey data, I find that the Australian tax code is considerably more complex than the...

Fueled by increasing inequality and rising fiscal deficits, the interest in wealth taxation has increased over the last years, both in the public debate and in academia. Yet, knowledge about the behavioral effects of a wealth tax is limited. We utilize rich Norwegian register data and a series...

Die Idee eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens (BGE) ist mittlerweile in der öffentlichen Diskussion angekommen. Ein Grundeinkommen ist ein monetärer Transfer, dessen Höhe die Existenz des Individuums absichert und seine Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft ermöglicht. Die Auszahlung erfolgt ohne...

How much companies pay in corporate income taxes is often better captured by effective tax rates (ETRs) rather than by statutory ones. Economists further distinguish between those modelled using the law - forward-looking ETRs - and those estimated from actual data on companies' profits and taxes...

This paper investigates the presence of framing effects and loss aversion in tax reporting behavior of wage earners using a balanced panel of German income tax return data. Reference dependence and loss aversion suggest that individuals in a perceived loss situation attribute higher value to a...