Maria Elena Scoppio

Director, Directorate for Indirect Taxation and Tax Administration,

DG TAXUD, European Commission

Maria Elena Scoppio is the Director of the Directorate ”Indirect taxation and tax administration“ in the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) in the European Commission. which aims to develop and implement tax policy across the EU on indirect taxation, and notably on environmental taxation. Before being appointed to this position, she was Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Gentiloni and was responsible for all issues related to DG TAXUD at the Cabinet level. She was notably coordinating the legislative proposals in the field of direct and indirect taxation and customs. Previously, she was Head of the Unit in DG TAXUD in charge of the elaboration and development of the EU policy in the field of VAT and of digital taxation. Before, from 2004 until 2017, she has served as a Member of Cabinet for the Commissioners Moscovici, Semeta and Kovacs and was supervising taxation issues. Before joining the Commission in 2002, she worked as a tax and legal adviser for Arthur Andersen.

Updated: November 2025