Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18505 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 612
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these proposals on the income distribution and on work incentives is based on a behavioral micro-simulation model which integrates an empirical household labor supply model into a detailed tax-benefit model based on the German Socio Economic Panel. Our simulation results show that under each reform the lion?s share of the reduction in taxes would accrue to families with children in the upper part of the income distribution, and that expected labor supply effects are small for all analyzed family tax splitting reforms, both in absolute terms and relative to the implied fiscal costs.
Subjects: 
Household Taxation
Income Distribution
Work Incentives
Microsimulation
JEL: 
H24
J22
H31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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