Chair
Prof. Dr. Dennis Weber, University of Amsterdam (UvA) Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL), head of Loyens & Loeff's European direct tax law practice
Keynote speakers
Juliane Kokott, Prof Dr. , LL.M. (Am. Univ.), S.J.D. (Harvard), Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Pasquale Pistone, Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in European Tax Law and Policy at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Associate Professor of Tax Law at the University of Salerno and Academic Chairman of IBFD
Speakers
Simon Whitehead, founding partner of specialist litigation firm Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP
Jonathan Schwarz, barrister at Temple Tax Chambers in London
Sandra Knaepen, Head of Mutual Agreement Procedure Unit at the International Co-operation and Tax Administration Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (OECD)
Georg Wilfried Kofler, Professor of Tax Law at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Global Professor of Law at NYU (Spring 2019)
Luc De Broe, Professor and Chair of Tax Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and head of the tax litigation team of LAGA law firm in Brussels
Philip Baker, Queen's Counsel practising from Field Court Tax Chambers in London
Target group
The conference is aimed at practitioners, in-house tax professionals, advisors and policy makers.
Certificates of participation will be issued upon request. Under the Danish rules on mandatory training for lawyers the conference qualifies for seven lessons.
Agenda
09:15 Registration, coffee and tea
09:45 Welcome and introduction
10:00 Keynote speech by Pasquale Pistone
- Withholding taxes and EU tax law: concept and impact on fundamental freedoms
10:30 Panel 1: Withholding tax in the EU context
- Beneficial ownership - A term of one or more meanings? by Philip Baker
- Tax treaties and withholding taxes in the EU context by Jonathan Schwarz
- The General Anti-Abuse Rule of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive: An Analysis
- Against the Wider Perspective of the European Court of Justice's Case Law on Abuse of EU Law by Luc De Broe
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Keynote speech by Juliane Kokott
- Taxpayers' rights
14:00 Panel 2: Resolving tax disputes in the EU and Beyond
- OECD countries' commitment to resolve tax disputes (Action 14) by Sandra Knaepen
- A critical assessment of the new EU tax dispute resolution directive by Georg Wilfried Kofler
- Upcoming cases by Simon Whitehead
16:00 Summary and Conclusions by Professor Dennis Weber
16:30 Networking, drinks and snacks
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