Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27241 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 717
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The local business tax as the main revenue source of local governments in Germany has been under extensive debate for decades. Proposals for reform range from a broad tax base in the sense of an origin-based value-added tax to a pure profit tax that could be implemented as a surcharge on corporation and personal income tax. Local business taxation systems in OECD countries actually represent the whole spectrum between these two extremes. We use a newly developed microsimulation model for the business sector in Germany to analyse the fiscal and distributional effects of the general reform options identified, including the extension of the local business tax to liberal professionals. We also analyse the effects of the actual German business tax reform 2008 with respect to local business tax revenues.
Subjects: 
Local business tax
microsimulation
local taxation
tax reform
JEL: 
H71
H25
C8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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