CASE acquires project to analyse the VAT gap in the EU-27

The ten-month study, sponsored by the EC DG TAXUD, will be undertaken in cooperation with CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.

The CASE expert team, led by Luca Barbone, will contribute to analysing the recent trends in the field of VAT fraud, by collecting data for the 27 EU countries and calculating the VAT gap for each country for the period 2007-2010. The scope of this study will be expanded by including the Member States – Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania – that were not included in the initial study to estimate the VAT gap for 2000-2006.