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GLOBTAXGOV team meets Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations 09 May 2023On 15 March 2023, the GLOBTAXGOV team at Leiden Law School met with the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) to explore opportunities f...
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ESOF 2022: Tax justice in Europe and beyond 18 July 2022On the occasion of Euroscience Open Forum 2022, Professor Attiya Waris (Director of Research and Enterprise and Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy in ...
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GLOBTAXGOV team and CIAT launch general anti-avoidance rule toolkit 04 July 2022The launch of the 'Toolkit for the Design and Effective Implementation of Domestic and International General Anti-avoidance Rules' generates strong in...
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CIAT and GLOBTAXGOV publish general anti-avoidance rule toolkit 22 April 2022The Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations CIAT and the GLOBTAXGOV project have published a 'Toolkit for the Design and Effective Implementatio...
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Apply for the new minor Tax and Society at Leiden University 14 April 2022Tax scandals, like the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora Papers, have made tax avoidance by large multinationals and rich individual...
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Irma Mosquera Valderrama speaks at Africa taxation webinar 21 February 2022
On 15 February 2022, Irma Mosquera Valderrama, Professor of Tax Governance, holder of the EU Jean Monnet Chair on EU Tax Governance EUTAXGOV and Princ...
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Mosquera Valderrama awarded a Jean Monnet Chair: 'Raise awareness of EU Standard of Tax Good Governance' 21 January 2022Last November, it was announced that the European Commission has awarded a Jean Monnet Chair to Professor of Tax Law Irma Mosquera Valderrama. She wil...
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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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What you need to know about tax avoidance 04 October 2020Before he became Minister of Finance, CDA leader Wopke Hoekstra invested for years in a shell company in the Virgin Islands. This has been revealed in...
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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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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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The Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law: Call for Applications 2019 28 November 2018The Grotius Centre, in collaboration with Duke Law School, will be hosting the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law from 16 June to 1...
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From Tax Havens to Tax Justice 27 November 2017On Friday 17 November 2017, H.E. Dr. María Fernanda Espinosa, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of the Republic of Ecuador gave a lecture...
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‘Worldwide solution for tax evasion not yet in sight’ 06 November 2017The Panama Papers and Paradise Papers provide evidence that companies and individuals are evading tax on a large scale. Worldwide tax agreements can p...
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Tax lawyer Sjoerd Douma best Coursera lecturer 30 March 2017Professor Sjoerd Douma has been named the top lecturer on Coursera, the best-known platform for online courses. Students gave him an average score of ...