Members of the LSE Tax Hub contribute to the wider discourse on tax policy through appointments to policy forums, visiting appointments at other academic institutions and as part of policy or global research networks. In so doing, they ensure that the work carried out in the Law School remains at the cutting edge and relevant to the local and global tax policy debate. The research we carry out is research with impact, generated through connections both to wider academia and beyond in both the public and private sectors on all continents.
Starting with academic connections, members of the LSE Tax Hubs are or have been recently visiting fellows or professors at, among other places: Fundação Getulio Vargas São Paulo, Michigan University, Northwestern University, and the University of Toronto.
Eduardo Baistrocchi was a founding member of the Global Tax Symposia (GTS) in 2019. The mission of the 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.A sister organisation, the PhD Global Tax Symposia was founded in 2021.
Dr Ian Roxan has participated in tax reform projects in Africa and Asia for the World Bank and the Harvard Law School International Tax Program and has provided consulting advice on taxation to the European Commission, the European Parliament, HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs.
Dr Andy Summers was a Commissioner on the Wealth Tax Commission.
Group members give testimony and submissions to inquiries of the G20, HMRC, OECD and other institutions.