Tax policy

2026 European energy crisis fiscal response tracker

This dataset provides an overview of the fiscal measures implemented by European governments to mitigate the 2026 energy shock in Europe

Ben McWilliams, Thomas Mramor, Alexander Roth and Simone Tagliapietra

How could Hungary streamline public spending without undermining growth?

Zsolt Darvas

Hungary has room to streamline public spending without hurting growth

Cutting some state operating and economic spending to the average of its regional peers could save Hungary more than four percent of GDP

Zsolt Darvas

Testimony to the Belgian Senate's Finance and Mobility Committee on a proposal for a Benelux working group on investment and taxation

Rebecca Christie

The Iran energy shock is a test of European discipline on state aid

The latest EU temporary state-aid framework is needed to shield industries and consumers from short-term costs, but should not become more permanent

Roel Dom, Antoine Mathieu Collin and Simone Tagliapietra

Financing the EU budget: an assessment of five proposals for new resources

Four of five new European Union budget ‘own resources’ proposed by the European Commission should go ahead with changes; the fifth should be scrapped

Zsolt Darvas and Roel Dom

EU aid for domestic revenue mobilisation after the Sevilla Commitment

The 2025 Sevilla Commitment renews the push for domestic revenue mobilisation, with the EU needing stable, targeted support for low-income partners

Roel Dom, Costanza Greppi Maturana and Pascal Saint-Amans

Tax, sovereignty and the EU

How will Europe manage the collision of money, politics and global reform?

Rebecca Christie, Roel Dom and Pascal Saint-Amans

With Trump, what is left of the global minimum tax?

Pascal Saint-Amans

How the global minimum tax amendments could reshape Europe’s tax incentives

This analysis offers estimates for EU countries of the possible impact of the ‘safe harbour’ update to the global minimum tax on corporate profits

Roel Dom

Has the global minimum tax survived Trump?

US objections have not killed off the 15 percent global minimum tax, but they have altered it and given the US a competitive advantage

Pascal Saint-Amans

Is EU tax advice steering reform, or just tracking political moods?

Roel Dom

Shifting priorities, slow progress: an analysis of EU tax recommendations

EU tax advice has broadened to new objectives, yet uneven implementation highlights the limits of soft coordination

Roel Dom, Costanza Greppi Maturana and Pascal Saint-Amans

The real obstacle to EU capital market integration is unreformed pension systems

Private pension savings in EU countries are limited by pension system design, meaning far less money than there could be for capital market investment

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

How much of a threat to US debt sustainability is Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act?

The US should start fiscal adjustment as soon as it can if it wants to head off the risk of exploding debt related to Trump’s tax and spending plan

Samantha Ajovalasit, Andrea Consiglio and Stavros Zenios