Objective

This conference will enable tax practitioners to keep up-to-date with the most recent developments in legislation and jurisprudence in the field of direct taxation.
 

Key topics

• Policy update from the European Commission
• Update on the EU’s fight against tax avoidance
• Direct tax nexus for digital business
• Principal Purpose Test and Multilateral Instrument
• DAC6 and legal privilege
• Tax Certainty Agenda
• Direct taxation and Brexit
• Recent fiscal state aid case law
• Recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the area of direct taxation

Who should attend?

Lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel, tax advisors, national civil servants, judges and prosecutors.

Speakers

Jeremy Cape, Tax and Public Policy Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, London

Daniel Garabedian, Advocate, Court of Cassation; Professor of Tax Law, Free University of Brussels

Prof Patricia Lampreave, Complutense University Madrid

Jacques Malherbe, Lawyer, Simont Braun, Brussels; Professor emeritus,  Catholic University of Louvain

Bart van Raaij, Policy Officer, Dir D1 Company Taxation Initiatives, European Commission, Brussels

Edoardo Traversa, Of Counsel, Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick, Brussels; Professor of Tax Law, Catholic University of Louvain

Paul Verhaeghe, Tax Lawyer, Lauwers & Seutin, Brussels

Hein Vermeulen, Tax Director, PwC, Amsterdam; Professor of Tax Law, University of Amsterdam