- International Monetary Fund
  Fiscal Affairs Department
  E-mail: shebous _AT_ imf.org

- Affiliations and Service
  Research Fellow, CESifo

  Board Member, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF)


New Papers
The Limits of a Broad VAT Cut: Pass-Through Heterogeneity and Welfare Interpretation August 2026
With Michael Barczay and Tom Zimmermann, CESifo Working Paper No. 12922



Taxing Cross-Border Services July 2026
With a team of colleagues, IMF Working Paper No. 2026/152



Stata module to calculate the cost of capital and forward-looking effective tax rates January 2026
With Andualem Mengistu
ssc install etr
The package includes two commands: etr and dietr
dietr_database     Stata Ado Files

    Appendix 1: ETR Derivations
    Appendix 2: ETR with Pillar 2
    Appendix 3: Qualified tax incentives

Forward-Looking Effective Tax Rates under the Global Minimum Corporate Tax (IMF Economic Review, June 2026), with Andualem Mengistu