Arbeitspapier

Has German business income taxation raised too little revenue over the last decades?

This study presents comprehensive macroeconomic measures on the revenue from business taxation in Germany. A comparison of the tax base reported in tax statistics with the corporate income derived from national accounts gives hints to considerable tax base erosion. The high weight of reported tax losses underlines this result. The average implicit tax rate on corporate income was around 21 percent since 2001, and thus falling considerably short of statutory tax rates and effective tax rates discussed in the literature. For lack of detailed accounting data it is hard to give precise reasons for the presumptive tax base erosion.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1303

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
Thema
business income taxation
implicit tax rates
tax base erosion

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bach, Stefan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bach, Stefan
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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