The team, made up of undergraduate, masters and doctoral law students from the Universitat de València, competed for the 8th consecutive year in the International and European Universities COoperating on TAXes competition, organised by the University of Varsovia (Poland), which will take place from 16 to 23 April 2020. The competition usually takes place in person, but this year’s edition was held online.

This competition, organised annually by the Grupo EUCOTAX universities, brings together 14 teams from the following European and American universities: Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungria), Georgetown University of Washington (EEUU), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Bélgica), University of Lodz (Polonia), Universitas Varsoviensis (Polonia), University of Osnabruek (Alemania), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Francia), University of Sankt Gallen (Suiza), Luiss Guido Carli (Italia), Tilburg University (Países Bajes), WU Wien (Austria), Univeristät Zurich (Suiza), Universitat de València (España).

The competition is organised in two phases. In the first phase, each student composes a memorandum in English on a specific topic of international taxation. In the second phase, the students present their work to a panel of judges made up of professors from the different EUCOTAX universities. Following the presentations, the participants prepare a comparative legal report on the similarities and differences among the national systems.

Throughout the week, in addition to the presentations of the memorandums that make up the competition, the students had the opportunity to attend the academic conferences organised each year by Ernst & Young  “EY’s vision on tax policies and administration responses on Covid-19 and the potential impact on future tax policies”.

We would like to congratulate and thank the coaches of the Universitat de València team, F. Alfredo García Prats and J. Carlos Pedrosa López (Professors of Financial and Tax Law at the Universitat de València), and the students who made up the team for their work: Benjamín Sevilla Bernabéu ( Doctoral student in Financial and Tax Law UV), Carlos Cano Marquina, Nair Sellés Safont (Master UV), Vicente Chapa López, Marta Guillén Santamaría, Alma Delia Virto Aguilar (Degree in Law UV).

Thanks are also due to the Dean's Office of the Law Faculty, which made the UV's participation in the competition possible.