24-25 November | Conference: (Fiscal) State Aid and Its Quantification and Recovery
This conference will deal with the recovery of unlawful fiscal State aid. The central question is how the extent of an advantage obtained through a fiscal measure should be quantified. Prior to the seminar, there will be a PhD-seminar on the topic of fiscal State aid for PhD researchers from the Netherlands and abroad.
PhD seminar: 24 November 2011
Prior to the conference on Friday, Leiden University is organizing a PhD-seminar for PhD candidates in the field of (international) tax law. This seminar will take place on Thursday 24 November 2011 and will provide a thorough introduction to the field of (fiscal) State aid.
This seminar is organized for all PhD candidates who perform research in the field of taxation, both national and international tax. Furthermore, this seminar particularly aims at expanding your international network.
PhD candidates participating in both the seminar on 24 November and the conference on 25 November 2011 will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance. Participation is free of charge, but places are limited. Please submit the application form if you would like to participate.
Organization
The conference and the seminar have been organized as part of the Doctoral Candidates Tax Law Network, the doctoral program jointly organized by the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), the Center for Tax Law at Uppsala University, the Institute for Tax Law and Economics at Leiden University and the International Tax Center Leiden, in cooperation with the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP). This particular seminar is organized in cooperation with the Leiden Expert Group on State Aid (LEGSA).
Speakers information
Speakers Conference: “(Fiscal) State Aid and Its Quantification and Recovery”
Prof. dr. Tanja Bender
Tanja Bender
Tanja Bender is a professor of international tax law at Leiden University and an international tax partner at PwC in the Netherlands.
Barbara Brandtner
Barbara Brandtner
Mrs. Barbara Brandtner is the Head of Unit DG Comp H/4 (Enforcement and Procedural Reform), European Commission.
Dr. Sjoerd Douma
Sjoerd Douma
Dr. Sjoerd Douma is a researcher at Leiden University and heads PwC’s EU Direct Tax Group and PwC’s State Aid Working Group. On 6 October 2011 he has defended his PhD thesis entitled: "Optimization of Tax Sovereignty and Free Movement".
Prof. dr. Frank Engelen
Frank Engelen
Prof. dr. Frank Engelen is a professor of international tax law at Leiden University, and an international tax partner at PwC in the Netherlands.
Anna Gunn, MA (Cantab), LL.M
Anna Gunn
Anna Gunn, MA (Cantab), LL.M is a PhD-researcher at Leiden University. She also works as a tax lawyer at PwC and is the Secretary of PwC’s State Aid Working Group. Her PhD-thesis is entitled: “The treatment of offshore activities in international (tax) law”.
Bart Janssen
Bart Janssen
Mr. Bart Janssen is a partner at Deloitte in The Netherlands specialized in tax accounting. He has published extensively on the subject of tax accounting. Bart is the key facilitator on the Deloitte Tax Accounting Training program and Masterclasses Tax Accounting and is also guest speaker at the Masterclass Tax Accounting at Nyenrode Business University.
Alke Metselaar LL.M
Alke Metselaar
Alke Metselaar is a PhD-researcher at the department of constitutional and administrative law at Leiden University. Her research, provisionally titled "The Dutch experiment with State aid law", focuses on the amendments to Dutch law that have been proposed in order to comply with the European requirements concerning the recovery of state aid.
Daniël Smit
Daniël Smit
Daniël Smit is a PhD-fellow at Tilburg University and works as a tax lawyer in the EU Competency Group of Ernst & Young in the Netherlands. On 2 December 2011 he will be defending his PhD thesis entitled: “Freedom of Investment between EU Member States and non-EU Member States and its Impact on Member States' Corporate Income Tax Regimes”.
Rita Szudoczky (Adv. LLM Leiden)
Rita Szudoczky
Rita Szudoczky (Adv. LLM Leiden) is a PhD-researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and works as know-how specialist at Loyens & Loeff in the Netherlands. Her thesis is entitled: “The relationships of different sources of EU law in the field of direct taxation: primary law - secondary law; fundamental freedoms - State aid rules”.
Dr. Anita Gyürkés
Anita Gyürkés
Dr. Anita Gyürkés is lawyer at the State Aid Monitoring Office, Hungary, and has read law at the University ELTE (Budapest, Hungary) and obtained an LL.M. degree from the Europainstitut (Saarbrücken, Germany). She works for the State Aid Monitoring Office since 2006, specialised in fiscal aid, risk capital, services of general economic interest and environmental aid.
Claudio Valz
Claudio Valz
Claudio Valz is an international tax partner at PwC in Italy. He is the Italian leader of PwC’s EU Direct Tax Group and a member of the State Aid Working Group. He has practical experience with the recovery of fiscal State aid.
Invitations and registration
Participation is free of charge, but subject to prior registration. Please find below the invitations, outlines and application forms.
Please contact Anna Gunn () or Lodewijk Wisse () in the event of questions or comments.