EU Tax Observatory

The EU Tax Observatory carries out innovative work on tax issues such as tax evasion and tax fraud.

Introducing the EU Tax Observatory

The EU Tax Observatory was established in March 2021 at the Paris School of Economics thanks to funding from the European Union. Under the direction of Gabriel Zucman, the EU Tax Observatory aims to conduct and disseminate innovative research of high scientific quality on EU taxation, as well as to stimulate exchanges between the scientific community, civil society and policymakers.

Objectives

The Observatory has several missions:

  • to conduct and disseminate innovative research of high scientific quality on EU taxation;
  • to foster a democratic and inclusive debate on the future of taxation in the EU, with particular reference to corporate taxation;
  • to contribute to the emergence of new practical proposals aimed at better meeting the budgetary challenges posed by globalization and faced by individual member states and the EU in particular, especially those linked to tax evasion and fraud.

A broad and diverse eco-system

Around the Paris School of Economics, the EU Tax Observatory will bring together European universities (including the University of Copenhagen), civil society organizations (including the Human Act Foundation), research centers (including the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Berlin), as well as renowned individual contributors: economists, lawyers, journalists…

Gabriel Zucman, a global tax expert

  • Gabriel Zucman

    PSE Chaired professor and PSE Stone Center holder

Gabriel Zucman, head of the European Tax Observatory, is also professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. An alumnus of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, the Master APE (2008) and the PSE doctoral program (2013), he was initially an assistant professor at the London School of Economics and was recruited by Berkeley in 2015. He is also co-director of the World Inequality Lab (PSE/Berkeley).

Gabriel Zucman publishes in the best international scientific journals. He is also the author of three books, including The Hidden Wealth of Nations and The Triumph of Injustice, which have had a definite international impact. In 2018, he was awarded the Prix du meilleur jeune économiste by Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes, the Bernácer Prize in 2019, the Medal for Excellence in the Study of World Economic Affairs by the Kiel Institute in 2017, and a prestigious fellowship from the Sloan Foundation in 2019.