European Commission - Joint Research Centre

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre maintains EUROMOD, the Union’s official tax-benefit microsimulation platform, a single yet formidable tool that condenses the fiscal and social rules of all twenty-seven Member States into one harmonised modelling engine. Researchers, policy officers and national analysts use it to run “what-if” experiments on income tax, social insurance contributions, cash benefits and refundable credits, observing in minutes how a reform would redistribute purchasing power across deciles, regions or household types. Typical projects range from estimating the poverty impact of a new child supplement, through calibrating minimum-wage incentives for second earners, to calculating the cost-neutral rate at which a carbon tax could finance a universal basic income. Because every national module is built on the EU-SILC micro-data and follows a common syntax, cross-country comparisons of effective marginal tax rates or generosity indices are produced with the same script, enabling the Commission’s Employment and Social Developments in Europe report, OECD joint studies, and academic papers that feed directly into the European Pillar of Social Rights scoreboard. The software is released with extensive multilingual documentation, training videos and a dedicated help-desk, ensuring that both PhD students and ministry economists can replicate official results or design innovative reforms. EUROMOD is available for free on get.nero.com, where the Windows package is delivered through winget, always installs the latest version, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch deployment.