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Separate and holistic solutions to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation 27 May 2021The response of international organizations to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation needs to be revisited, according to PhD candidate ...
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics 20 May 2021In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a ...
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Irma Mosquera Valderrama speaks at at the European Parliament 07 December 2020The European Parliament’s newly created Subcommittee on Tax Matters held a public hearing on the EU’s work on harmful tax practices on 1 December 2020.
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How independent are tax academics? 29 October 2020Many academics who specialise in tax law also work for commercial tax consultancies. It would very much seem as though the combination of different ro...
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Jan van de Streek appointed Professor of Tax Law in Leiden 02 October 2020Jan van de Streek is a tax scholar who conducts research into the taxation of multinationals. His appointment will commence on 1 January 2021.
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Leiden students reach final International and European Tax Moot Court 04 March 2020The team of four students from Tax Law has reached the final of the most prestigious international moot court competition in the field of internationa...
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Intensive Course on Tax Law, Gadjah Mada University and Leiden University 18 February 2020In the last week of January, Prof. Rex Arendsen and PhD candidate Maarten Manse of the Department of Tax Law at Leiden Law School, taught an ‘Intensiv...
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Tanja Bender included in book Recognising 100 Years of Women in Tax 20 December 2019Professor of International Tax Law, Tanja Bender, has been included in the book Recognising 100 Years of Women in Tax.
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Tax Law researchers write report for the World Economic Forum 09 December 2019Researchers from the Department of Tax Law were lead authors of a report on corporate taxation and digitalization for the World Economic Forum.
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Jan Vleggeert appointed Professor Tax Law and Economics 28 October 2019Jan Vleggeert is a tax specialist with an independent and critical voice in the debate on tax avoidance by multinationals. His appointment commenced o...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Hanneke Bennaars and Prof. Frans Sonneveldt in hindsight 23 October 2019On Thursday 17 October 2019, the second ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Hanneke Bennaars and Prof. Frans Sonneveldt gave two very ...
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ILS Lunch Seminar with Hanneke Bennaars and Prof. Frans Sonneveldt 08 October 2019The monthly ILS Lunch seminars bring together colleagues and students from Leiden Law School, providing an informal setting to hear what researchers f...
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PhD seminar in Multilateral Cooperation on International Tax Law 17 September 2019On 12 and 13 September 2019, the Institute of Tax Law and Economics of Leiden University hosted 29 PhD researchers from around the world to engage in ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treaties 24 June 2019PhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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Eight Meijers prizes awarded 14 January 2019On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers prizes were awarded for the best published article, of each faculty research programme, written by Assistant...