Missing trader intra-Community (MTIC) fraud is a prominent form of VAT non-compliance, which involves a fraudulent trader supplying goods and services to other businesses, collecting the tax due on the supply, and then disappearing without remitting it to the tax authorities. This type of fraud...

A specific form of VAT non-compliance in the EU that warrants particular attention is missing trader fraud. This scheme involves a fraudulent trader supplying goods and services to other businesses, collecting the tax due on the supply, and then disappearing without remitting it to the tax...

This report presents the findings from an experimental estimation of the personal income tax (PIT) and social security contributions (SSC) compliance gaps for Austria (years 2009, 2014, 2019) and Poland (years 2016-2021). The methodology used was developed during Phase I of this study, which...

This report presents an assessment of personal income tax (PIT) and social security contributions (SSC) compliance gap estimation methodologies to inform a methodological and operational framework for yearly EU27 and per Member State gap estimations. The analysis comprehensively covers the...

Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud (MTIC fraud) is a type of VAT fraud under which a fraudulent trader supplies goods and services to other businesses, collects the tax due on the supply from their customers, and disappears without ever remitting it to the tax authorities. This phenomenon...

This report examines VAT compliance and policy gaps in the EU and EU Member States. The VAT compliance gap addressed by this report is a measure of overall non-compliance in VAT. It is the difference between the tax revenue that would be collected in the case of full compliance and the actual...

This report aims to support tax administrations in their VAT gap monitoring efforts. It scrutinises VAT compliance gaps and VAT policy gaps in all EU Member States using a standardised methodology and data sources, which allows for comparisons across time and against other Member States. The...