In Deutschland ist der Anteil der Armen in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich gewachsen. Gleichzeitig sind die privaten Vermögen im Vergleich zu anderen EU- und OECD-Ländern besonders ungleich verteilt. Zudem muss der Staat Milliardenkredite, die zur Krisenbewältigung aufgenommen wurden,...

Despite an established theoretical literature on (optimal) wealth taxation, the empirical literature is still in the process of catching up. Previous studies usually focus on country case studies and a specific type of wealth tax in isolation. This paper analyses from a cross-country perspective...

Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address “period poverty” and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of “tampon taxes” as the pass-through of sales taxes into...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine normative Analyse und Verteidigung der Erbschaftssteuer unternommen. Zunächst wird eine egalitaristische Argumentation für die Steuer entfaltet. Aufgrund ihrer progressiven Struktur ist die Erbschaftssteuer ein geeignetes Instrument, um der wachsenden...

One way to reduce inequality and poverty is to promote tax justice. In 2021, the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, implemented a program (the Devolve-ICMS Program) that refunds consumption tax to low-income citizens (cashback). This study aims to evaluate the impacts of this...

In Deutschland ist der Anteil der Armen in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich gewachsen. Gleichzeitig sind die privaten Vermögen im Vergleich zu anderen EU- und OECD-Ländern besonders ungleich verteilt. Zudem muss der Staat Milliardenkredite, die zur Krisenbewältigung aufgenommen wurden,...

This Article examines the tax law’s subsidies for inequality and segregation in primary and secondary education, analyzing the federal charitable deduction and education savings plans, and state tax credits for education. It argues that the tax system diverts funds from traditional public...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

America does not tax its richest citizens, such as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, at all. This Article argues that part of the reason is the paradox that under current income tax law and theory, taxing the rich would cost resources that could be made available to benefit the not-rich. The Article...

Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address "period poverty" and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of "tampon taxes" as the pass-through of sales taxes into consumer...

Across the globe, the subject of immigration is politicized and polarizing. In the United States, the unauthorized immigrant population, I assert, is the result of immigration policies ill-suited to address economic and humanitarian realities. Specifically, undocumented immigrant workers yield...

The viability of our international tax system hinges on two things: (1) safeguarding the effective flow of international activities and (2) ensuring that countries can adequately collect tax on the income derived from those activities. Each of these fundamentals relies on a defensible/fair...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

Baltimore boasts more historic structures than any other American city. Nearly one-third of all its buildings, or more than 65,000 structures, are on the National Register of Historic Places. During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” after watching bombs...

The global agreement to introduce a minimum corporate income tax rate is arguably one of the most important tax policy developments of the last decades. Yet, there are growing concerns over its fairness. The aim of this paper is to consider the impact of process on fairness perceptions, drawing...

Tax justice debates are often framed in binary opposition between those who support lower taxes, a smaller state and greater self-sufficiency and those who support higher taxes and higher social spending. Whilst there is an element of truth to this caricature, the present volume reveals a much...

This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female...

At the 2021 Met Gala, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked controversy by wearing a “Tax the Rich” dress. Afterward, AOC championed the race of the dress designer and accused her critics of being sexist, while her critics pointed to the irony of such a message at a $30,000-a-ticket event...

This article examines a Portuguese decision on the application of a tax treaty's non-discrimination clause to extend the domestic relief available under domestic law to a person that, according with the wording of such clause, would be excluded from it.In this case, the author believes that the...

Prior research shows taxpayers’ perceptions of fairness lead to greater cooperation and compliance with tax authorities. Yet our understanding of tax fairness has been hampered by its general reliance upon models and measures of fairness developed by organizational fairness research, even...