Programme of the Days

Wednesday, April 26th 2017

  • Arrival of the delegations (15.00 - ...)
  • Welcome cocktail (and dinner) (18.30 - ...)

Thursday April 27th 2017

  • 09.00 - 09.15 Registration of the Delegates
  • 09.15 - 10.00 Keynote Presentations, Professor Stephen Cohen (Measuring Inequality: Methodological Issues and the U.S. Data) and Professor Penelope Tuck (Tax policy and redistribution: the view from the UK )

First Session

Taxation, wealth and Redistribution in Turbulent times

  • 10.00 - 11.30 Taxation, Inequalities and redistribution of Wealth, surveys of Hungary, Germany, and Italy.
    • Delegates from Hungary (Braun Anna Luca, Hajzer László, Németh Olívia, Rigó István)
    • Delegates from Germany (Bessouet Matthieu)
    • Delegates from Italy (Vincenzo Riso)
    • Delegates from other countries (Gabrielle Tremblay, Anita Andrade, Erick Fernando da Silva Preisle, Aizada Mustafina, Carli Albino Yger)
  • 11.30 - 13.00 An Agenda for the future: Ideas, Plans and Means for a more Inclusive Society
    • Constitutional principles and Financial sustainability
    • Delegates from Germany (Kuslits Katalin; Paula Drabant)
    • Round table between Students and Professors
      • (Braun Anna Luca, Hajzer László, Németh Olívia, Rigó István, Vincenzo Riso, Gabrielle Tremblay, Anita Andrade, Erick Fernando da Silva Preisle, Aizada Mustafina, Bessouet Matthieu)
  • 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break and Sightseeing of the premises

Second Session

EU and US: How Wide is the Ocean now ?

  • 14.00 - 14.30: CIT and VAT. A Policy problem ?
    • Delegates from Hungary (Krisztián Alexandra, Éberhardt Bálint)
  • 14.30 - 15.00 (1) Destination based corporate tax - (2) Diverted Profit tax - (3) Similarities and differences between the two
    • Delegates from Germany (Schaupp Markus)
  • 15.00 - 16.00 Continued: DBCT, DPT and their consistency with the current set on International Tax treaties.
    • Schubert Márk, Gianula Gkadris, Alexander Wilkens, Martin de Wall
  • 16.00 - 16.30 DBCT and DPT: testing their compatibility with EU law
    • Baksa Dóra, Annika Striewe, Lawrence Sparrow
  • 16.30 - 17.00 Border tax Adjustment: Custom duty in disguise ? How is it possibly going to affect the business relations with the US ?
    • Krisztián Alexandra, Éberhardt Bálint (with the support of Professor Stephen Cohen)
  • 17.00 - 18.00 A lesson for Europe ? Curbing unfair tax competition consistently with the BEPS report. DBCT vs (C)CCTB chances of success and need for implementation.
    • Dalk Dominik, Marieke Van Der Velden, Emmanuelle Cloutier
  • 18.00 - 18.30 Those at the margins: SME enterprise in Europe and the possibilities to compete on a global scale.
    • Braun Anna Luca, Németh Olívia, Rigó István, Sofia Orlando
  • 19.30 Dinner at the premises

Friday April 28th 2017

Third Session

  • 09.20 - Meeting at the Hall
  • 09.30 - 10.00 Assessing convergence between tax system. the recent EU Experience
    • Andela Milutinovic
  • 10.00 - 11.00 Assessing convergence between tax system. the ongoing BEPS Project
    • Hajzer László, Zsingor András
  • 11.00 - 11.30 Evidence of convergence: the German experience
    • Hanna Rieß
  • 11.30 - 12.00 Evidence of Convergence: the Italian Experience
    • Francesca Amaddeo
  • 12.00 - 12.30 Evidence of Convergence: the Hungarian Experience
    • Zsingor András
  • 12.30 - 13.00 Discussion and round table
    • All the students involved
  • 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
  • 14.30 Concluding remarks
    • Professor Simon Istvan, Ekkehart Reimer, Marco Greggi
  • 15.00 Closing of the session
    • Professor Marco Greggi
  • 15.30 Cultural programme (visit planned to museum / city center)

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19.00 Dinner together

Saturday April 29th 2017

09.00 - 12.00 Departure of the delegations.