DiRECT policy workshop 2025

1. 16 Oct 2025, 10:45 - 11:15 (CEST)

   Arrival & Registration

   Welcome coffee and informal networking

2. 11:15 - 12:15 (CEST)

   Welcome & Presentation of the DiRECT Model

   Welcome address
   Benjamin Angel, DG TAXUD

   Introduction by the organising team
   Salvador Barrios, Head of Unit (JRC B2)

   Presentation of the DiRECT model
   JRC DiRECT team (Fotis Delis, Raffael Speitmann, Andrzej Stasio)

   Q&A

3. 12:15 - 13:30 (CEST)

   Lunch Break
4. 13:30 - 15:00 (CEST)

   Expert Panel: Reflections on the DiRECT Model and Policy Implications

   Panel discussion featuring external reviewers and DiRECT authors

   • Antonella Caiumi (ISTAT)
   • Martin Simmler (Thünen)
   • Harald Amberger (WU Vienna)
   • Andrzej Stasio (JRC)

   Moderated discussion and Q&A
   Moderator Giorgia Maffini (PWC)

    

5. 15:00 (CEST)

   Coffee break
6. 15:30 - 17:00 (CEST)

   Thematic Session: Effective Tax Rates and Corporate Tax Policy

   Effective Tax Rates, Firm Size, and the Global Minimum Tax
   Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank)

   Efficient Economic Rent Taxation under a Global Minimum Corporate Tax
   Shafik Hebous (IMF)

   Decomposing Corporate Income Taxes: Evidence from Administrative Data
   Ana Cinta Gonzalez Cabral (OECD)

   Moderated discussion and Q&A
   Moderator Daniel Stöhlker (JRC)

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8. 17:00 (CEST)

   Closing Remarks

Practical information