This paper proposes measures to quantify the effective level and the effective progressivity of taxation in a fiscally decentralized country taking income sorting into account. Using data on the universe of Swiss taxpayers, we find that rich households effectively face significantly lower...

Die neue Regionalstudie der Credit Suisse fokussiert auf sechs Wirtschaftsregionen südlich des Juragebirges. Diese erstrecken sich über die Kantone Solothurn und Bern und umfassen die Achse Solothurn-Grenchen-Biel und die Satelliten Balsthal, Langenthal und Lyss. Trotz dem hohen Druck, der auf...

Die Unternehmenssteuerreform III stellt das Schweizer Steuersystem auf ein neues Fundament. Auf Druck der OECD und der G20 soll die tiefere Besteuerung von ausländischen Unternehmensgewinnen in der Schweiz abgeschafft werden. Das Bassin lémanique ist Standort zahlreicher globaler Konzerne, die...

State borders create a discontinuous tax treatment of retail sales. In a Nash game, local tax rates will be higher on the low-state-tax side of a border. Local taxes will decrease from the nearest high-tax border and increase from the low-tax border. Using driving time from state borders and all...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten einer diskriminierenden Unternehmensbesteuerung und betrachtet dabei unter anderem die Optimalität eines solchen Steuersystems aus einer finanzwissenschaftlichen Perspektive.

This paper discusses trends in capital taxation and the role of the corporate tax rate in a welfare state. It provides a summary of the tax competition literature with special application to capital taxation in small versus large countries. A main finding from this literature is that small...

What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore cross-country spillovers of tax...

Wenn das Finanzausgleichsgesetz zum Ende des Jahres 2019 außer Kraft tritt, ergibt sich eine historische Chance, die Reibungsverluste im gegenwärtigen Ausgleichssystem durch eine Neuordnung der Bund-Länder-Finanzbeziehungen zu verringern. Der Autor analysiert, in welchem institutionellen...

The current debate on tax planning has to distinguish between tax evasion and aggressive tax planning. While tax evasion is illegal and requires the enhanced exchange of information, measures against aggressive tax planning seem to be very complex and complicated. Tax havens’ benefits from tax...

Following recent court rulings, cross-border loss compensation for multinational firms will likely be introduced, at least in Europe. This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a coordinated cross-border tax relief in a setting where multinational firms choose the size of a risky investment...

The tax competition for mobile capital, in particular the reluctance of small countries to agree on measures of tax coordination, has ongoing political and economic fallouts within Europe. We analyse the effects of introducing a two tier structure of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member...