Effective Taxation for Recipients of Social Assistance in Germany and the Consequences of the 1996 Tax Reform /

This paper explores the problem of effective taxation at the lower end of the income scale in Germany. For the recipients of social income maintenance--currently about 1.8 million nationals--effective taxation consists not only of the explicit taxation through the tax code but also of the implicit t...

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Autor Principal: Thimann, Christian
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/120
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF