Arbeitspapier
Does Germany collect revenue from taxing capital income?
A widespread objection to the introduction of consumption tax systems claims that this would lead to high tax revenue losses. This paper investigates the revenue effects of a consumption tax reform in Germany. Our results suggest that the revenue losses would be surprisingly low. We find a maximum revenue loss of 1.6 percent of annual GDP. In some years, we even find a tax revenue gain. This implies that the current tax system collects little revenue from taxing the normal return to capital. Based on these results, we calculate a macroeconomic measure of the effective tax rate on capital income.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1489
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
- Thema
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cash flow tax
tax revenue effects
effective taxation of capital income
Kapitalertragsteuer
Steueraufkommen
Ausgabensteuer
Steuerreform
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Johannes
Fuest, Clemens
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Johannes
- Fuest, Clemens
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2005