Tax Simplification and Tax Equity

Expected changes in a tax simplification. Preference for a tax system.

Topics: figures on wage or income tax; extent of work with filing the income tax return; duration of work with personal income tax return; judgement on the complexity of the tax system in Germany; necessity of a tax reform; expectation of increased tax equity or injustice through a tax simplification; associations with the term ´tax simplification´; personal willingness to make sacrifices in the form of relinquishing tax benefits for the goal of a tax simplification; preference for a tax system with low income tax rates and few tax benefits or for the opposite system; attitude to increased flat rates (instead of proof for individual deductions) for tax simplification; accepted reduction of selected privileges and selected flat rates for tax simplification; acceptance of a petroleum tax increase for the sake of elimination of motor vehicle taxes; attitude to a simplified tax return through elimination of proof for individual deductions for the sake of increased standard deduction; attitude to filing tax returns every two years; self-classification of personal economic situation; party preference (Sunday question); union membership; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; residential status.