ACTL members conduct research into various subjects of tax law, with a strong emphasis on Corporate Taxation, International Tax Law and European Tax Law. Within the University of Amsterdam, the ACTL is considered a Centre of Excellence. The research of the ACTL belongs to the “private and Public European law priority area”, which is one of the Amsterdam Law School research priority areas.

Conferences, Courses and Advanced Master's in International Tax Law

The ACTL regularly organizes (international) conferences, seminars, courses and is participating in the Advanced Master's in International Tax Law: Principles, Policy and Practice.

Rethinking Tax Policy to ensure Fair Taxation in Society

ACTL research currently focuses on 'fair, inclusive and sustainable taxation' and, particularly, on the fundamental tax policy issues that societies are facing within all the International, European and Dutch landscapes. Details of ACTL's research programme are available on the centre's research page.

Researchers

For an overview of the researchers associated with the ACTL, please click here. In addition to the ACTL's Staff, a few external researchers are associated with the ACTL.

ACTL co-operated

The ACTL is one of the founders of the Group for Research on European and International Taxation (GREIT), a collaboration between the ACTL and researchers from various universities in the EU. The core universities of the GREIT are: Lisbon University (Portugal), Lund University (Sweden), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and the University of Salerno (Italy). Other universities which participate in the GREIT are: European University Institute (Italy); Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria), the IE Law School and the IE Center for European Studies, Madrid (Spain) and Münster University (Germany). 

Outside the EU, the ACTL co-operates with universities and tax institutes from various parts of the world, such as the New York University (USA), FGV Rio (Brazil), the Malaysian Tax Academy (Malaysia), Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and the Central University of Finance and Economics (China).