Licensing EUROMOD as open source

EUROMOD (model and software source code) has recently been licenced as open source. This step was taken to provide EUROMOD and its community with all the advantages that open source licensing provides: transparency, collaboration, reliability, flexibility, agility, etc.

In particular:

• The open source EUROMOD model (starting from the latest version release I3.0+) is being distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. You can access the model from our website.
• The EUROMOD software source code has been published under European Union Public License 1.2 (EUPL-1.2).

Licensing EUROMOD as open source also opens the possibility of further collaborations and contributions from institutions or individuals on the model and software.

The EUROMOD-JRC Interface is now open

The EUROMOD-JRC web interface provides simplified access to EUROMOD itself, and allows analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of tax reforms.

The interface utilises the full tax-benefit rules stored in EUROMOD, allowing the user to simulate parametrical reforms on Personal Income Taxes (PIT) and Social Insurance Contributions (SIC) of EU member states, without requiring prior knowledge of EUROMOD. For taxes, it is possible to change/add/remove rates and brackets, and change amounts and thresholds for allowances and tax credits in 6 categories: (1) personal, (2) family, (3) work-related, (4) housing, (5) education, and (6) health.

Results of the simulated reform, along with those of the baseline scenario, are produced using Stata and exported to Microsoft Excel workbooks, where several aggregated indicators are summarised.

Until now the EUROMOD-JRC interface could only be accessed on request by experts in the European Commission network. Starting this week any researcher or policy analyst will be able to request access to this tool from the EUROMOD-JRC Interface webpage.