The Global Tax Symposia (GTS) aims to become the first mobile interdisciplinary research platform on fundamental issues of international taxation. It is founded on the belief that integrating the perspectives of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Asia-Pacific and Europe will be of significant benefit to all participants, particularly in light of the current global political and economic context.
The GTS aims to provide a platform for young researchers and experienced academics to engage in discussions on five conferences each year in different cities across the globe. Each conference is discussed by an interdisciplinary and intercontinental panel of distinguished academics, administrators, lawmakers and tax professionals.
The founding institutions include:
Africa: University of Pretoria (South Africa); The Americas: Torcuato di Tella University (Argentina), University of São Paulo (Brazil), McGill University (Canada), New York University (USA); Asia: Wuhan University (China), Meiji University (Japan), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India), Moscow State University (Russia), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), Seoul National University (South Korea); Asia–Pacific: University of Melbourne (Australia), University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), University of Auckland (New Zealand); Europe: University of Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne Law School (France), University of Münster (Germany), Leiden University and project funded by ERC GLOBTAXGOV (Netherlands), Stockholm University (Sweden), Koç University (Türkiye) and London School of Economics (United Kingdom).
2023 Global Tax Symposium
The 2023 Global Tax Symposium addressed the New International Taxation Frontiers, including issues about principle, theoretical or pragmatic, related with taxation and development.
The topics discussed in the symposium were:
- Pilar 2 - Challenges of its application in developed and developing countries.
- Taxation of assets - recent experiences.
- Offshore finance and taxation.
- Brazil fiscal remodelling - Income tax and excise duties.
- Transfer prices - current issues.
- Multilateralism.
The 2023 Global Taxation Symposium sessions combined academic conferences and panel discussions with the participation of state officials from finance ministries and taxation agencies, academics, tax system professionals and researchers from different disciplines about taxation from every continent.
Conferences for debate:
- GLoBE: The potential costs of cooperation / Tsilly Dagan
- Substance in the transfer prices in a world post-BEPS and further.../ Raffaele Petruzzi y Argyro Myzithra
- The single tax principle: Justification, content and function in the design of QDMTT / Ricardo André Galendi Júnior
- Property tax for the UK / Arun Advani; Emma Chamberlain; Andy Summers
- Global Tax Hubs / Eduardo Baistrocchi
- Serenity. Now! The (not so) inclusive framework and the multilateral instrument / Yariv Brauner
Full programme of the 2023 Global Tax Symposium.
2023 symposium videos:
Details of the programme and video recording of recent symposiums:
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Conference of the 1 and 2 December 2022
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Online conference of the 8 and 9 December 2021
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Online conference of the 10 December 2020
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Conference of the 25 October 2019
Presidency:
Eduardo Baistrocchi, Law adjunct professor, LSE.
Management board:
Africa: Annet W. Oguttu, Law Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Asia: Professor Xiong Wei, full-time university professor in Law, Wuhan University, China; Yan Xu, assistant professor in Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Suranjali Tandon, assistant professor in Economics, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India. Asia-Pacific: Miranda Stewart, Law professor, University of Melbourne, Australia. The Americas: Mitchell Kane, Law Professor, New York University, USA; Celina Valls, assistant professor in Law, Torcuato di Tella University, Argentina. Europe: Edoardo Traversa, Law professor, Univeersity of Louvain, Belgium; Eduardo Baistrocchi, adjunct professor in Law, London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Global Tax Symposia History:
Two book presentations at the LSE were the precursor to the Global Tax Symposia concept.
Firstly, Tsilly Dagan, International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Transcription available.
Secondly, E Baistrocchi (ed), A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Videos available.
The Faculty of Law of the LSE (@LSELaw) is part of the mission of the faculty, playing a crucial role in the political debates and in the training of lawyers and Law professors from all around the world.
Some images of the event from the 25 October 2019:
PhD Global Tax Symposia
The GTS PhD wants to offer to the young researchers from around the world the first mobile interdisciplinary research platform about fundamental international taxation issues. It is founded on the conviction that integrating the perspectives of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific will be of significant benefit to all participants, particularly in light of the current global and economic context.
The GTS doctoral programme wants to offer a debate forum to discuss five doctoral theses each year in different cities from every continent. Each work is discussed by an interdisciplinary and intercontinental panel of distinguished academics, administrators, lawmakers and tax professionals. The most innovative thesis will receive the award Ph.D. Global Tax Symposium.
The first edition of the PhD Global Tax Symposium was held at the Leiden University (Netherlands) on September 2021 under the direction of professor Irma Mosquera. More information
The second edition of the PhD Global Tax Symposium was held at the McGill University (Canada) on September 2022 under the direction of professor Allison Christians. More information
The third edition of the PhD Global Tax Symposium was held at the Stockholm University (Sweden) on August 2023 under the direction of professor Jérôme Monsenego. More information
