Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144686 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 21-2016
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
We analyze survey data on the proposal to introduce a tax exemption for caregiving heirs to the German inheritance tax. Some 80 percent of the participants support this exemption, about half of those supporting the tax exemption want to see it restricted to relatives. We explain interpersonal differences in policy preferences using a wide range of personal characteristics, beliefs and attitudes. Neither subjects' sex, nor their valuation of the family is found to have an effect while personal experience in long- term care provision and having alive parents strongly shape policy preferences. Subjects with alive parents and/or personal experience in long-term care provision are more likely to support the tax exemption but less likely to support the restriction to relatives. This result supports the bottom line of the recent social science literature on home care provision and intergenerational relations within the family: Many citizens in Germany feel overburdened with caregiving.
Subjects: 
inheritance taxation
long-term care
intergenerational transfers
citizens' preferences
JEL: 
H27
D31
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
265.77 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.