This study evaluates the effects of the 2018 UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on soft drinks prices, sales, reformulation activities, and consequently calories consumed. We combine novel electronic point of sale data that cover most of the UK soft drinks market with longitudinal nutritional...

Firms are facing progressively more stringent tax disclosure requirements. In this paper, we examine whether increased qualitative tax transparency leads to intended outcomes using, as an exogenous shock, the 2016 UK reform that mandated the disclosure of a tax strategy for firms above a certain...

This paper sheds light on the scarce empirical evidence on cryptocurrency users and use types. Based on the only available empirical estimate, shared by Chainalysis, this paper simulates the revenue potential from taxing Bitcoin capital gains in the EU. Total estimated Bitcoin capital gains in...

The main goal of this study is to assess whether, and if so, how the tax policy is implemented in Poland in relation to informal partnerships. The justification for conducting research in this area is the growing number of such relationships and the demands formulated by the public on the...

Digital technology allows businesses to operate in a country without a physical presence, which poses challenges for traditional taxation. The digital debate focuses on direct taxation and the creation of new taxing rights arising from the tax claims of market jurisdictions on income obtained by...

In dieser Studie werden die Verteilungseffekte der Steuerpolitik in der 19. Legislaturperiode untersucht. Im ifo Mikrosimulationsmodell ifo-MSM-TTL werden Be- und Entlastungen verschiedener Haushaltstypen und Einkommensgruppen sowie die Veränderung der Ungleichheits- und Armutsmaße durch...

Firms are facing progressively more stringent tax disclosure requirements. In this paper, we examine whether increased qualitative tax transparency leads to intended outcomes using, as an exogenous shock, the 2016 UK reform that mandated the disclosure of a tax strategy for firms above a certain...

Sugary drinks taxes have been implemented around the world and governments around the world are considering extending these taxes to address concerns about rising obesity. We demonstrate the range of impacts a tax on added sugar and salt could have on purchases of food at home and out of the...

Steuerrecht ist nationales Recht. Somit kann jede einzelne Nation über steuerrechtliche Regelungen Forschung und Entwicklung fördern und gegebenenfalls Besteuerungssubstrat aus anderen Ländern absaugen. Eine dieser speziellen Regelungen ist die Patentbox Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es...

Technology and digitalization are transforming economic activity, but tax policies are lagging behind. The development also encompasses a broad shift in value-creation, with less emphasis on physical production and more on soft knowledge/intangibles, notably copyrights, firm-specific processes,...

Going to university is a very good investment for most students. Over their working lives, men will be £130,000 better off on average by going to university after taxes, student loan repayments and foregone earnings are taken into account. For women, this figure is £100,000. (These and other...

"Sin taxes" are high on the political agenda in the global fight against obesity. According to theory, they are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control are at least as price responsive as consumers with high self-control, even in the absence of externalities. In this paper, we...

"Sin taxes" are high on the political agenda in the global fight against obesity. According to theory, they are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control are at least as price responsive as consumers with high self-control, even in the absence of externalities. In this paper, we...

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance...

This paper analyses government instruments in terms of reducing market inequality. Government redistribution, realized through public spending and taxation, could be considered as a key element in order to ensure a more equal distribution of income between households. The first part of the paper...

Das Kompetenznetzwerk Nutztierhaltung, das Bundesministerin Klöckner 2019 als strategisches Beratungsgremium für die zukünftige Nutztierhaltung eingerichtet hat, hat der Ministerin am 11. Februar 2020 ein Empfehlungspapier übergeben. Zentrale Aussage darin ist die Einführung einer...

Tech giants such as Google and Facebook generate significant amounts of advertising income, which is mainly reported in low-tax countries. This has created a policy discussion of how to re-align the location of value creation and taxation. The success of the business model of these digital...

This paper provides evidence from a fragile state that citizens demand more of a voice in the government when it tries to tax them. I examine a field experiment randomizing property tax collection across 356 neighborhoods of a large Congolese city. The tax campaign was the first time most...

Steuerrecht ist nationales Recht. Somit kann jede einzelne Nation über steuerrechtliche Regelungen Forschung und Entwicklung fördern und gegebenenfalls Besteuerungssubstrat aus anderen Ländern absaugen. Eine dieser speziellen Regelungen ist die Patentbox Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es...

Die öffentliche Debatte um den Solidaritätszuschlag nimmt gegenwärtig Fahrt auf. Am 9. August legte das Bundesfinanzministerium einen Gesetzesentwurf vor, der die Ergänzungsabgabe für gut 90% der Steuerzahler zurückführt. Dies soll durch die erhebliche Erhöhung der derzeit geltenden...

Das internationale Steuerrecht steht seit nunmehr längerer Zeit im besonderen Interesse der weltweiten Öffentlichkeit, da es multinationalen Unternehmen immer wieder gelingt, im erheblichen Umfang Steuerzahlungen zu vermeiden. Internationale Initiativen z.B. durch die OECD versuchen durch...

Die Verfasser untersuchen, inwiefern die vom Gesetzgeber 2005 verabschiedete und sukzessiv eingeführte nachgelagerte Besteuerung von Alterseinkünften bis 2040 sowohl die Höhe des Einkommensteueraufkommens als auch den Aufkommensanteil von Menschen im Rentenalter beeinflussen wird. Dabei wird...

Die Verfasser untersuchen, inwiefern die vom Gesetzgeber 2005 verabschiedete und sukzessiv eingeführte nachgelagerte Besteuerung von Alterseinkünften bis 2040 sowohl die Höhe des Einkommensteueraufkommens als auch den Aufkommensanteil von Menschen im Rentenalter beeinflussen wird. Dabei wird...

In 2018, the European Council and the UK and Spanish governments each proposed to introduce a Digital Services Tax (DST), to be levied on the revenue of large digital platforms from advertising, online intermediation, and/or the transmission of data. We offer a rationalization of the DST as a...

Although theoretical research on optimal capital taxation suggest to incorporate public opinions, the empirical literature on preferences regarding capital taxation almost exclusively focusses on the emotionally loaded estate tax. This paper presents a more comprehensive investigation of...

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance...

The canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972) predicts that firms evade taxes by optimally trading off between the costs and benefits of evasion. However, there is no direct evidence that firms react to audits in this way. We conducted a large-scale field experiment in collaboration with...

The evaluation of a tax system - that is, the set of legal rules that governs the exercise of authoritative rule by various government entities in the form of tax collection in the country - is notoriously controversial in Brazil, as elsewhere. The tax system plays a central role in a modern...

As sustainability embeds concepts of economic prosperity and growth, the idea of pursuing it through law - and through lawyers, with their tendency to focus on rights, as opposed to what seems fiscally prudent, or, frankly, simply affordable - might seem risky. The risk may be that lawyers will...