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Zunächst vor der eigenen (Kirchen-)Tür kehren!

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  • Peter Mandler

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At Easter representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and of the German Protestant Church argued for more redistribution. The main tool for redistribution in the German tax system is the progressive income tax. The most important source of funding for the church, the church tax, is directly linked to income. However, for top earners an alternative tax scale applies. In most federal states the church tax is limited to a certain percentage of taxable income, a provision known as “capping”: hence, in contrast to the throughout progressive income tax, the church tax is lowered to a proportional burden for top earners. Therefore, the churches’ demands for more redistribution are inconsistent with the “capping”. An institution that campaigns for a specific type of distribution of taxation burden should at first apply the underlying principles to its own members. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Peter Mandler, 2013. "Zunächst vor der eigenen (Kirchen-)Tür kehren!," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(7), pages 484-487, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:93:y:2013:i:7:p:484-487
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-013-1553-x
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    Keywords

    E62; H24; Z12;
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    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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