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EU Tax Observatory
@taxobservatory.bsky.social
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Independent research lab focusing on #taxation, corporate tax avoidance, tax evasion, and solutions to these issues. Directed by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

Learn more: https://linktr.ee/taxobservatory
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Curious how countries can curb tax haven usage & raise business ownership transparency? 🤔

Join @jakobbrounstein.bsky.social ( @theifs.bsky.social ) at our #LunchSeminar!

🗓️ Nov 21, 12:00 CET
📍 @pse.bsky.social & Online

🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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🚨 Save the Date!

Don’t miss our joint conference with @skatteforsk.bsky.social: From Secrecy to Transparency: The End of Hidden Wealth?

🗓️ 3-4 Feb 2026
📍 @pse.bsky.social

Explore how global reforms, beneficial ownership registries & data sharing impact offshore tax evasion and financial secrecy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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📢 New WP alert! Can stronger tax compliance make markets less concentrated?

The paper by @matejbajgar.bsky.social, Petr Janský & Tijmen Tuinsma finds that tougher tax transparency rules for multinationals lead to less industry concentration 🧵

Full paper: www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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"Le secteur extractif mobilise des entreprises et des chaînes de valeur qui traversent les frontières. Pour le réguler, les États coopèrent ou exercent leur influence au-delà de leur juridiction." 💬 @nmoreaukastler.bsky.social

📺 Regardez la session complète ici : www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2gq...
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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How can teaching tax morale in schools foster prosocial behavior and strengthen democracy? 🖋️🤓

Join Enrico Rubolino (Univ. of Lausanne) at our next #LunchSeminar!

🗓️ Nov 7, 2025 – 12:00 CET
📍 @pse.bsky.social & Online

🔗 lnkd.in/dkpC68XU
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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How does Brazil’s tax system create unequal opportunities for firms to comply—or not? 🤔

Join Luciana Barcarolo & Jhoney Barcarolo for our next #LunchSeminar at the @PSEinfo
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🗓️ Oct 31, 2025 | 12:00 CET | In-person & online
🔗 lnkd.in/dkpC68XU
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Does Switzerland’s tax system really level the playing field — or just move the goalposts? 🤔

Join Enea Baselgia (ETH Zurich) at our next #LunchSeminar.

🗓️ Oct 24 | 12:00 CET |
📍@PSEinfo & online
🔗 lnkd.in/dkpC68XU
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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@gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Pascal Saint-Amans will be debating on “Taxing the wealthiest: what kind of tax justice for the 21st century?” at the @normalesup.bsky.social

📅 Thursday, October 23, 2025

👉 More info: lnkd.in/e7yPaQhP

👉 Register here: lnkd.in/e4SdRmMe
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Why do mafias invest in clean companies? 🤔

Join Rocco Macchiavello (Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science) for our next #LunchSeminar to explore this question.

🗓️ October 17, 2025 | 12:00 PM (CET)
📍 Paris School of Economics & Online

🔗 Registration: lnkd.in/dkpC68XU
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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How does inheritance tax avoidance work through the family firm? 🤔

Join @isabelmico.bsky.social (Economist at the @Bank of Spain) for our next #LunchSeminar to explore this question.

🗓️ October 10, 2025 | 12pm (CET)
📍 @pse.bsky.social & online

🔗 Registration: lnkd.in/dkpC68XU
October 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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1/6 Does requiring stronger due diligence for foreign sourcing work? 🤔

Our latest policy note by @nmoreaukastler.bsky.social and @giuliavaraschin.bsky.social looks at the US experience with conflict minerals 🧵

Read the full note: www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🇧🇷 Brazil's President @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social opened the UN General Assembly with powerful messages, including a strong call for taxing the super-rich.
September 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Today, our Policy Director, @qparrinello.bsky.social, was auditioned by the FISC Committee of the European Parliament on the implications of Trump administration tax policies on Europe 🇪🇺

📺 Watch the full session: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week's #LunchSeminar with Laurence Jacquet (‪ @cy-univ.bsky.social ) will focus on production regulation principles and tax reforms.

🗓️ September 26 | 12 PM (CET)
📍 Join us in person at @pse.bsky.social or online via Zoom

🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🧵1/6 #Dubai’s real estate market isn’t just booming, it’s also a major hub for offshore real estate investment.

Our study reveals that 1/3 of the city’s residential property (~$68B) is owned by non-resident foreigners, dwarfing most major global cities.

👉 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Guess what? EUTO #LunchSeminar is back! 🚀

🎙️Join Margarita López Forero ( @banquedefrance-off.bsky.social ) for an interesting discussion on offshoring wage inequality in tax havens.

🗓️ September 19 | 12pm (CET)
📍 @pse.bsky.social & Zoom

🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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💬 @giuliavaraschin.bsky.social: "The proposal is for a minimum level of taxation that would simply fill the current gap and ensure the ultra-rich pay as much in taxes as everyone else."

🎥 Watch the full interview: www.raiplay.it/video/2025/0...
September 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🧵 1/ Over 20% of global banking debt is booked in #TaxHavens. Why do international banks rely so heavily on low-tax jurisdictions with tiny economies?

Our latest Working Paper provides the first global evidence of large-scale debt shifting to avoid taxes 👇

www.taxobservatory.eu/es/publicati...
September 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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1/ How do MNEs shift profits to tax havens & who’s doing most of it?

Using #German administrative data, authors show:

🔹 Profit shifting rises sharply with firm size
🔹 €19bn shifted in 2022 alone
🔹 95% of that by firms covered by the Global Minimum Tax

👉 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
July 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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"The research is clear: at the very top of the distribution, the super-rich pay less tax relative to their economic income than the rest of the population—fuelling inequality. Taxing HNWIs brings direct revenue & indirectly boosts funding by rebuilding tax consent." @qparrinello.bsky.social at #FfD4
July 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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$11+ trillion in financial wealth is held offshore.

CRS reveals the owners of an important share of that wealth to tax authorities, but the ultra-rich still find ways to avoid personal income taxes on business income.

💡 Global minimum tax on the ultra-rich could help restore fairness at the top.
June 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🧵1/ Over the past decade, 100+ countries signed Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) agreements to fight cross-border tax evasion.

But how effective are these in practice? Our new paper sheds light using leaked bank data from the Isle of Man 👉 bit.ly/4kF265w
June 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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💬 "Our proposal on the minimum tax on HNWIs draws from the experience of international tax cooperation on multinational companies to look at how we can reach an agreement without waiting 15–20 years." – @qparrinello.bsky.social at #OxfamItalia's conference on the Taxation of Wealth.
June 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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📢 Keynote Spotlight!

"As enforcement capacity grows, so do efforts to engage in more intensive evasion and avoidance, particularly among large firms and richer individuals, which leads to more regressivity." 💬 @dinapomeranz.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Day 2 of the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation kept the momentum going!⚡️

Today’s spotlight: 🏠 property taxes, 🔄 profit shifting, 💻 digitalization of tax systems, 🌍 tax spillovers, and ⚖️ growing enforcement challenges in developing countries, among other topics.
June 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM