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Celebrated the PhD Global Tax Symposium 2025

  • September 26th, 2025
Family photo from the Global Tax Symposium 2025

PhD Global Tax Symposium 2025, organised by ETICCs group, gathers young international tax law researchers in València.

Universitat de València held this year's edition of the PhD Global Tax Symposium (GTS) on 15 and 16 September 2025 in hybdrid format (in-person and online). An international academic meeting.

The symposium calls for doctorate programme students and international tax law experts to debate about the main challenges of contemporary tax law: economy digitalisation, implementation of Pilar II (global minimum tax), sustainability of tax systems, international tax governance, international tax justice, and more.

Students participating in the meeting presented their research and received feedback from the international board of professors and academics from different institutions. Each presentation recording is available with the name of the speaker.

Paul Arun – BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) and FDI Inflows: The Experience of Lower-Middle-Income Economies
- Discussant: Jérôme Monsenego (Stockholm University).


Zarja Hude – Toward a Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Structure and Process International Tax Law
- Discussant: Hyejung Byun (University of Seoul)


Francesco Castro – AI and the Transformation of Tax Authorities: Legal challenges to fairness and accountability in the EU and Beyond
- Discussant: Miranda Stewart (New York University).


Ioanna Kladi – Mapping the International Tax Fairness Debate
- Discussant: Marco Greggi (University of Ferrara).


Raphaël Clement – The Historical Development of the OECD Inclusive Framework
- Discussant: Joaquim Englisch (University of Münster).

 

Cindy Salvador Márquez – Navigating the Global Minimum Tax in Peripheral States: Pillar II, Tax Sovereignty, and Normative Dissonance in Peru
- Discussant: Irma Mosquera (Leiden University).


Botao Ding – The Evolution of Demand for Extraterritorial Taxation and Its Administration Path
- Discussant: Yan Xu (University of New South Wales).


Fitria Ratna Wardika – Distinguishing Necessary and Unnecessary Legal Complexity in Indonesia's Income Tax Laws
- Discussant: Adrianto Nugroho (Gadjah Mada University).


Daniel Olika – Developing Country Participation in International Tax Reform at the United Nations: Lessons from the World Trade Organization
- Discussant: Suranjali Tandon (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy).


Raquel Alamà – Tax-Related Illicit Financial Flows: Regulatory and Institutional Challenges in the Context of International Taxation
- Discussant: Edoardo Traversa (Université Catholique de Louvain)

 

PhD Global Tax Symposium is a part of the Global Tax Symposia (GTS), an interdisciplinary platform integrating universities and institutions representative of Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, those being: University of Pretoria (Southafrica), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), Universidad de São Paulo (Brasil), UNAM (Mxxico), McGill University (Canada), New York University (United States), Wuhan University (China), Meiji University (Japan), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India), Gadaj Madah University (Indonesia), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), University of Seoul (South Korea), Melbourne University (Australia), University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne Law School (France), University of Münster (Germani), Leiden University y el proyecto ERC GLOBTAXGOV (Netherlands), Moscow State University (Rusia), Stockholm University (Switzerland), Koç University (Türkiye), Ferrara University (Italy), Universitat de València (Spain) y London School of Economics (United Kingdom).

 

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