Arbeitspapier

ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxCoMM)

Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights into the incentives of taxation they do not allow robust revenue estimations or distribution analyses. Hence there is need to supplement existing quantitative tax models by approaches apt for these issues of policy analysis. Against this background, this paper puts forward a corporate microsimulation model allowing an ex-ante evaluation of tax reforms with regard to distributional consequences and revenue effects. Central feature of the model is the processing of financial statements included in the DAFNE data base of the Bureau van Dijk. The firm-level data is supplemented by survey data on tax accounting practices. The focus of the paper is on the documentation of the model set-up. Its application will be addressed in future publications.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-117

Classification
Wirtschaft
Statistical Simulation Methods: General
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Firm
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Distribution: General
Tax Law
Subject
Microsimulation Model
Corporate Taxation
Policy Analysis
Firm-Level Data
Unternehmensbesteuerung
Körperschaftsteuer
Mikrosimulation
Steueraufkommen
Steuerbelastung
Steuerinzidenz
Theorie
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Reister, Timo
Spengel, Christoph
Finke, Katharina
Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2008

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Reister, Timo
  • Spengel, Christoph
  • Finke, Katharina
  • Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Time of origin

  • 2008

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