The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research supports the Sustainable Development Goals
EUROMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EU) that enables researchers and policy analysts to calculate, in a comparable manner, the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for the population of each of the 27 Member States and the EU as a whole. EUROMOD is free for academic and not-for-profit use.
The EUROMOD consortium consists of the core developer group at JRC Seville and the national expert groups of each Member State. The European Centre acts as the Austrian expert team and contributes with an annual update of policy parameters, the Austrian input data (EU-SILC EMSD and national data) for the model, as well as validation.
In 2026, the Austrian part of EUROMOD is updated to 2026 policy rules (incl. adjustments for bracket creep, housing contribution Vienna, etc.) using latest (uprated) input data (SILC 2025 with incomes for 2024). Work on the ITT-tool (simulation of indirect taxes by using merged SILC/HBS-data as input) including tables on VAT-rates for detailed commodities, on excise taxes, and on specific prices in Austria will continue.
Currently, EUROMOD/SORESI is also used by researchers of the European Centre to simulate the fiscal effects of potenitally higher employment rates among persons aged 55-64.
A detailed description of the policy parameters, the micro-database as well as on validation results is provided in the Austrian EUROMOD country report.
The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research supports the Sustainable Development Goals
