Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128333 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5636
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper motivates and describes the tax treatment of German retirement benefits and pensions after the 2005 reform initiated by the German Federal Constitutional Court. The main question is whether this reform has produced a “level playing field” among the many instruments generating retirement income in Germany. The paper briefly outlines rational principles for the taxation of retirement benefits and pensions and compares these with current practice in Germany and abroad.
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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