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• Tax/benefit systems and growth potential of the EU

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European Commission DG Research in cooperation
with DG Taxud
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• Sixth Framework Programme,
• Priority 8 Topic 3.1. Task 4
• Impacts of tax/benefit systems for the pursuit of
  sustainable development, employment, pensions,
  social cohesion
• Project period 1.12.2004 - 31.1.2007

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Aims to analyse
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• The link between tax/benefit systems and
  employment in the EU
• The EU tax systems under tax competition and
  enlargement
• The growth potential of the EU and its relation
  to the tax/benefit systems

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Aims (continued)
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• The macroeconomic role of tax systems in
  promoting reforms in tax systems in the EU under
  the single monetary policy
• Attainment of sustainable growth in the EU with a
  high quality of the environment and the role of
  green taxes and emission trading in the energy
  sector.

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Flowchart
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Partners
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• CEPS (Belgium), coordinator
• ETLA (Finland), scientific coordinator
• CEPII (France)
• CEPREMAP (France)
• CPB (The Netherlands)
• PRAXIS (Estonia)
• ZEW (Germany)

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Delivers
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• Has delivered 24 (vs. orig.16) Working papers
• 7 Workshops
• Final conference
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• Final report

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Organisation
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• Coordinator, Daniel Gros, CEPS
• Scientific coordinator Kari Alho, ETLA
• Steering committee 1 member from each partner
• Work package management
• WP 1, ETLA
• WP 2, CPB
• WP 3, CEPREMAP
• WP 4, CEPII
• WP 5, CPB

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workshops

• Tax competition, WP 2, held in Dec. 04, Prague
• Kick-off meeting, held in Jan. 05, Brussels
• Employment and tax/benefit systems, WP 1, held in
  June 05, Tallinn
• First project workshop, all, held in Sept. 05,
  Helsinki
• Macroeconomic modelling of tax policies, WP 4,
  held in Jan. 06, Paris
• Productivity growth and tax/benefit systems, WP
  3, held in Jan. 06, Paris
• Second project workshop, all, held in June 06,
  The Hague
• Climate change policies and taxation, WP 5, held
  in Oct. 06, Brussels
• Final conference, all, Nov. 27, 06, Brussels

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Presentations of the Work packages
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• Major challenges facing the EU in the area
  covered by the WP
• How these have been answered in tax/benefit
  policies
• The research tasks adopted by TAXBEN in the WP
• The methodological approaches used
• The results reached by TAXBEN
• Core scientific results
• Results on policies in the EU