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The idea is to aim taxes at people that cause an above-average amount of societal harm so the free market incorporates all costs as opposed to only personal costs, with the benefit of lowering the overall tax burden for people who cause less societal harm.
The average effective sales tax for different income groups of the combined 50 States (2007). The effective tax shown is calculated using a microsimulation model based on the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample of census records and statistical data from the Internal Revenue Service for undisclosed years.
As a result of discussions in 2006 and 2009 between federation and states (the so-called Föderalismusreform [de; fr]), the Federation also administers some taxes. The competent authority is the Federal Central Tax Office ( Bundeszentralamt für Steuern , or BZSt ) which is also competent authority for certain applications of tax refund from ...