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Global Taxation Symposia and Seminars

LSE Law hosts three forums for interdisciplinary mobile research on fundamental issues of international taxation: the Global Tax Symposia; the Phd Global Tax Symposiam; and the Global Tax Seminar Series.

Read more about each forum below:

Global Tax Symposia

The mission of the Global Tax Symposia (GTS) is to become the first interdisciplinary mobile research platform on fundamental issues of international taxation. It is grounded on the belief that crossing African, American, Asian, Asian-Pacific and European perspectives is beneficial to all participants, especially in the current political and economic global context.

The GTS aims to offer young researchers and more experienced scholars a forum where to discuss five papers every year in different cities on all continents. Each paper is discussed by an interdisciplinary and intercontinental panel whose members are leading tax academics, administrators, policymakers and practitioners.

Click here for the 2027 Call for Papers

Africa: University of Pretoria (South Africa). Americas: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), University of São Paulo (Brazil), McGill University (Canada), New York University (USA) and Stanford University (USA). Asia: Wuhan University (People’s Republic of China), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (People’s Republic of China), Meiji University (Japan), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India), Moscow State University (Russian Federation), King Saud University (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and the University of Seoul (South Korea). Asia-Pacific: The University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia), and the University of Auckland (New Zealand).Europe: University of Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne Law School (France), University of Münster (Germany), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Ferrara (Italy), Leiden University and the ERC-funded project GLOBTAXGOV (The Netherlands), Stockholm University (Sweden), Koç University (Turkey), the University of Valencia (Spain), Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).

2026 Conference

2025 Conference

2023 Conference

The 2023 Global Tax Symposium addressed topics on New Frontiers of International Taxation including principled, theoretical or pragmatic issues connected to tax and development. The select themes covered by this symposium are:

  • Pillar II – Challenges of its implementation in developed and developing countries.
  • Wealth Taxation- recent experiences.
  • Offshore finance and taxation.
  • Tax reform in Brazil – Income tax and Consumption tax.
  • Transfer pricing – current issues.
  • Multilateralism.

The sessions in the 2023 Global Tax Symposium combined academic papers and panel discussions including the participation of government officials from ministries of finance and tax agencies, academics, tax practitioners, and researchers in different disciplines on taxation from all continents.

Papers under discussion:

Click here to download the full 2023 Global Tax Symposium Programme

Click here for video from the 2023 symposium:

2022 Conference

2021 Conference

2020 Conference

2019 Conference

The first Global Tax Symposium was held at the London School of Economics Law Department on Friday 25 October 2019.

For video of each individual presentation please click on the presentation title below.

Introduction

Niamh Moloney (Head of Department, LSE Law), Eduardo Baistrocchi (Associate Professor, LSE Law)

Presentations

Suranjali Tandon (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India): "An Analysis of Transfer Pricing Disputes in India"

Martin Hearson (Institute of Development Studies): "An Unprecedented Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty: Arbitration and Sovereignty in the Double Taxation Regime"

Ian Roxan (LSE Law): "Is VAT also a Corporate Tax? Untangling Tax Burdens and Benefits for Companies"

Mitchell Kane (NYU Law): "Collecting the Rent: The Global Battle to Capture MNE Profits"

Eduardo Baistrocchi (LSE Law): "The International Tax Regime and Global Power Shifts"

Edoardo Traversa (Université catholique de Louvain): "Territoriality, Abuse and Coherence in European Tax Law"

"The Future of the International Taxation System": Michael Lennard (Chief of International Tax Cooperation and Trade, Financing for the Development Office, United Nations), Michael Keen (Deputy Director of the IMF`s Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF), Benjamin Dickinson (Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD)

Chair: Eduardo Baistrocchi, Associate Professor of Law, LSE

Steering Committee:

Africa: Annet W. Oguttu, Professor of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Asia: Professor Xiong Wei, Professor of Law, Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China; Yan Xu, Associate Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; Suranjali Tandon, Assistant Professor of Economics, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Republic of India. Asia-Pacific: Miranda Stewart, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia. The Americas: Mitchell Kane, Professor of Law, New York University, United States of America; Celina Valls, Adjunct Professor of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina. Europe: Edoardo Traversa, Professor of Law, UCLouvain, Belgium; Eduardo Baistrocchi, Associate Professor of Law, London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

PhD Global Tax Symposia

The PhD Symposia are dedicated to the work of young researchers, giving them a platform to share and discuss their papers annually in various cities across the world. A panel consisting of renowned tax academics, tax administrators, policymakers, and practitioners from different regions and disciplines will examine each paper.

Africa: University of Pretoria (South Africa); Americas: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), University of São Paulo (Brazil), McGill University (Canada), New York University (United States of America); Asia: Wuhan University (People's Republic of China), Meiji University (Japan), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India), Moscow State University (Russian Federation), King Saud University (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), University of Seoul (South Korea); Asia-Pacific: the University of Melbourne and UNSW Sydney (Australia), University of New South Wales, University of Auckland (New Zealand); Europe: University of Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne Law School (France), University of Münster (Germany), Leiden University and ERC funded project GLOBTAXGOV (The Netherlands), Stockholm University (Sweden), Koç University (Turkey) and London School of Economics (United Kingdom).

Global Tax Seminar Series

The mission of the Global Tax Seminar Series (GTSS) is to provide a regular and congenial forum for the presentation and discussion of new academic tax law, policy and theory research by colleagues from all continents. The seminars are run online as a Zoom meeting, with 25- to 30-minute paper presentations followed by comments from a discussant and then ample time for questions and a discussion.

Africa: University of Pretoria (South Africa); Americas: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), University of São Paulo (Brazil), McGill University (Canada), New York University (United States of America); Asia: Wuhan University (People's Republic of China), Meiji University (Japan), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India), Moscow State University (Russian Federation), King Saud University (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), University of Seoul (South Korea); Asia-Pacific: University of Melbourne and UNSW Sydney (Australia), University of New South Wales, University of Auckland (New Zealand); Europe: University of Louvain (Belgium), Sorbonne Law School (France), University of Münster (Germany), Leiden University and the ERC-funded project GLOBTAXGOV (The Netherlands), Stockholm University (Sweden), Koç University (Turkey) and the London School of Economics (United Kingdom).

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