Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45017 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
arqus Discussion Paper No. 114
Publisher: 
Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre (arqus), Berlin
Abstract: 
The German tax reform act 2001 changed the corporate tax system from a full imputation system to a half income system. Along with this change, the taxation of equity investments changed as well. Using data on 459 disposals of minority blocks over the period 1997-2006, this paper analyzes the effect of TRA 2001 on the demand for corporate shares of different owner types and on corporate ownership concentration. We show that TRA 2001 was able to fulfill government's expectations about an increase in blocks bought by individual owners. With respect to ownership concentration, we find tax incentives not to be strong enough to lead to a reduction in overall concentration of corporate ownership.
Subjects: 
corporate ownership
marginal tax rate on equity
minority blocks
Germany
JEL: 
G11
G34
H24
H32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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