Conferences and Seminars

The Deutscher Steuerberatertag is a 2.5-day congress organize by the DStV. The congress is focusing mostly on German tax issues and this years event is themed “Preserving values- Mastering the future”, which refers to values in both an ethical and a financial sense. A focus will be on inheritance tax and income from capital. Several speakers will also refer to taxation in the light of the economic crisis.

All speeches will be hold in German.

More info can be obtained on www.dstv.de.

CFE – ECJ SEMINAR
Luxemburg, Tuesday 20 October 2009

The number of taxation issues that are being brought to the ECJ by the national courts is significant

The central purpose of this seminar is to address a key question which the European tax professionals are increasingly confronted with: “How do I ensure to advise my clients efficiently on tax dossiers which are (or are liable to be) affected by an ECJ decision?”

The Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) has celebrated last year its 50th anniversary in Paris where its seat is located. To highlight this event, the CFE has organised an Anniversary Conference with the "Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux" together with "l'Union Professionnelle des Sociétés d'Avocats" which took place at the Sacem, in Paris on Friday 25 September 2010. The topic of the anniversary conference was "Making Europe more competitive - Where are we after 50 years?”

The video recordings of the CFE Global Conference on Professional Affairs 2008, which took place in Brussels on 26 November 2008, are accessible for the public.

The CFE was organising the conference “The Tax Adviser profession: ownership and cooperation - How much regulation is needed?” on Wednesday 26 November 2008. The intention of the conference was to reflect on how regulations on the tax adviser profession are pervading the profession particularly as regards of ownership and cooperation.

On Tuesday 20 November 2007, the conference on „Tax Advisers - Undermining or enhancing the tax system?“ -Tax Advisers, Revenue Authorities and Tax Payers - Relationships and Interactions” was held in Brussels.

From Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 September 2007 the CFE meetings took place in Dublin. The technical meetings of the General Assembly, the Fiscal Committee, Professional Affairs Committee and the Advisory Board of the Past Presidents were held in the conference center attached to the Croke Park Stadium which provided an impressive backdrop. The arena is the largest stadium venue in Ireland. Following its redevelopment, Croke Park has capacity for 82,300 people and in 2007 over 2 million people are expected to visit the stadium.

On 24 November 2006 a conference on “The influence of European law on direct taxation. Recent and future developments” took place in Amsterdam. The conference had been organised with the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers (NOB) and the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) in cooperation with the CFE.

Presentations:

Michael Lang, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration: “Limitation of the temporal effects of judgments of the ECJ”
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The CFE meeting in London took place on 27th to 30th September. On Wednesday a opening conference on “Creating a competitive corporate tax environment for Europe” took place. See pictures from this event.

Documents:
Programme
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