Reforming Corporate Taxation

European Straits #109

Dear all,

This week I’m doing something unusual: spending five consecutive days in Paris! 🇫🇷 This made it possible for my colleague Zineb Mekouar, who’s in charge of public affairs in The Family’s Paris office, to set up meetings with many people in the policymaking world. Monday evening, we had a panel with Paula Forteza, a pro-Macron member of Parliament, on citizen participation and the . And yesterday evening I participated in another panel, this time at the Assemblée nationale, with another En Marche MP, Bénédicte Peyrol. This time the subject was on taxing tech companies.

The long march toward reforming corporate taxation

Corporate taxation is one of my fields of expertise. I originally trained as a senior civil servant and then joined a French grand corps known as the Inspection générale des finances. During my initial four years there (2006-2010), I explored various policy fields: payroll management, research and higher education, upgrading public accounting rules, promoting cu…