On 21 February 2003, the Bundestag, the German Federal Parliament, passed the "Steuervergünstigungsabbaugesetz", a tax bill which intends to close a number of loopholes in the German tax code. With a focus on…
A recent article presents effective corporate tax burdens for a number of countries. Its authors conclude that Germany can be considered to be a low tax country by international comparison, and that a tax reform…
Based on a representative consumer framework, it has been argued that wage taxation is inferior to consumption taxation. This note shows that the opposite result may emerge in a model where households are…