Arbeitspapier

Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identication. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden. Administrative linked employer-employee data allow us to estimate heterogeneous firm and worker effects. Our findings highlight the importace of labor market institutions and profit-shifting opportunities for the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. Moreover, we show that low-skilled, young and female employees bear a larger share of the tax burden. This has important distributive implications.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 241

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Thema
business taxation
incidence
administrative data
local taxation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fuest, Clemens
Peichl, Andreas
Siegloch, Sebastian
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fuest, Clemens
  • Peichl, Andreas
  • Siegloch, Sebastian
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2017

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