Seminar programme: 1. Economic crisis and protection of taxpayers’ rights – tax morality? 2. International indirect taxation of enterprise services. Multilateral, internal or bilateral approach? 3. Fragmentation of contracts and taxation. 4. Automatic Exchange of Information: a new...

The IFA Permanent Scientific Committee (PSC) selected the two subjects below for the IFA 2016 Madrid Congress, as well as the corresponding General Reporters: Subject 1: Dispute Resolution Procedures in International Tax Matters Subject 2: The Notion of Tax and the Elimination of International...

Topics: - Tax incentives on Research and Development (on R & D) - The practical protection of taxpayers' fundamental rights The Seminar programme is as follows: - Break-out session to Main Subject 1: Patent Boxes - The taxation of expatriates - Cross-border supply of services and VAT/GST:...

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) has been a central concept in the empirical public finance literature for the last 20 years. Precise information on the ETI is potentially very relevant for the design of tax policy as it is, under certain circumstances, a 'sufficient statistic' for...

Papers on all fields of public finance are welcome. The particular focus of the 2015 annual conference will be on European tax policy, including, (but not restricted to), research on: - Tax competition, tax base erosion, and profit shifting - European tax harmonisation - Analysis of tax...

Goal of the conference is to gain feedback from experts and policymakers on draft policy notes outlining practical options for reforming environmental policies in Europe, and research needs to help improve policy design and evaluation. The focus will be on fiscal and regulatory policies...

Main Topics: - Cross-border outsourcing - issues, strategies and solutions - Qualification of taxable entities and treaty protection Seminar Topics: - VAT implications of outsourcing and cost-sharing arrangement - Indirect transfer of assets - The taxable residence of companies - Judges...

The objective of the workshop is to provide and overview of how fiscal responses to the crisis varied across Europe. The event aims to bring together country experts who will be presenting the macro and fiscal background in their country, provide an overview of fiscal response to the crisis, and...

For the scientific sessions of our conference, we seek high-quality academic papers in areas such as: - EU debt crisis - Fiscal policy in the EU - Prospects of an EU fiscal union - Income and wealth inequality - Redistributive preferences - Optimal redistributive taxation - Financial sector...

This conference is being organised to celebrate the 75th anniversary of IBFD and the International Fiscal Association. The 2-day conference programme will look into tax trends, anti-avoidance, tax planning, the use of criminal provisions and sanctions, developments in tax treaties, tax...