Objective

This conference will enable legal practitioners specialising in VAT to keep up to date with the most recent developments in legislation and jurisprudence in the /> 

Key topics

• Policy update on recent developments 
• VAT in the Digital Age
• VAT and online events
• Fixed establishments
• Undervaluation in e-commerce 
• Fleet cards and e-vehicles recharge
• Recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the area of VAT
• Litigating VAT cases

Hybrid format

If you cannot attend the conference in Trier, you can still join online!
You will be able to interact immediately and directly with our top-quality speakers and other /> 

Who should attend?

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

Speakers

Christian Amand, Tax Lawyer, Xirius, Brussels; former Chairman of the VAT and Indirect Taxation Group of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE)

Stephen Dale, Consultant, Société d’avocats HEDEOS, Paris

Bert Gevers, Partner, Head of the Indirect Tax Practice Group in Belgium, Loyens & Loeff, Brussels

David Hummel, Legal Secretary, Cabinet of Advocate General Kokott, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg; Professor, University of Leipzig

Marie Lamensch, Professor of International and European Tax Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels; Member of the VAT Expert Group of the European Commission

Ine Lejeune, Attorney, Ine Lejeune bv, Ghent, Belgium; former Lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Diplomatic Academy and Vrije Universiteit Brussels; Member WU’s core team working on cross-border VAT disputes and PhD candidate University of Amsterdam

Erwan Loquet, Head of Tax and Advisory Partner, BDO Luxembourg

Giacomo Luchetta, Team Leader for the Project VAT in the Digital Age, Founding Partner, Syntesia Policy and Economics, Trento

Madeleine Merkx, Professor of Indirect Taxation, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Partner, BDO Netherlands, Tilburg

European Commission (tbc)