Shafik Hebous

Shafik Hebous is a Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He has provided extensive tax policy advice in advanced, emerging-market, and low-income economies. Shafik’s research covers a range of tax and fiscal policy issues and has been published in academic journals, including in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Goethe University Frankfurt.

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• Carbon Emissions from AI and Crypto Are Surging and Tax Policy Can Help
  • Published: August 15, 2024
  • Authors: Shafik Hebous, Nate Vernon-Lin
  • Summary: Crypto mining and data centers now account for 2 percent of global electricity use and nearly 1 percent of global emissions, and their footprint is growing.
• Crypto Poses Significant Tax Problems—and They Could Get Worse
  • Published: July 5, 2023
  • Authors: Katherine Baer, Ruud de Mooij, Shafik Hebous, Michael Keen
  • Summary: Tax systems need updating to cope with crypto assets, whose anonymity and decentralized nature poses challenges—not least for the value added tax.
• Tax Coordination Can Lead to a Fairer, Greener Global Economy
  • Published: April 12, 2022
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Shafik Hebous, Paolo Mauro
  • Summary: Cooperation across countries can raise revenue, tackle inequality, and fight climate change.

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