The Implications of Online Platforms and Technology on Taxation and Taxpayers’ Rights

CPT – GREIT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The CPT project of the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) together with the Group for Research on European and International Taxation (GREIT) are excited to announce their joint two-day conference about “The Implications of Online Platforms and Technology on Taxation and Taxpayers’ Rights" (on 7 and 8 April 2022).

Start date: 7 April 2022
End date: 8 April 2022
Time: 09:00

Thirty eight (38) speakers and moderators will be divided in 7 panels addressing the following topics:

(i) Implications of platforms and technology on taxation and taxpayers’ rights;
(ii) Reporting and due-diligence obligations imposed on online platforms in relation to sellers in the sharing and gig economy;
(iii) Online platforms and vat reporting;
(iv) Workforce in the digital era: the legal status of digital workers and its personal and business income tax implications;
(v) The implications of distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain) on tax systems;
(vi) Virtual currencies, crypto-assets, NFTs and other implications of de-fi for tax systems;
(vii) Explainable AI in tax law.

Programme

The first day of the conference will be focused on the issues related to tax reporting by online platforms and on the taxation of platforms’ sellers/workers.

The second day of the conference will be devoted to discussing the implications of technology on taxation, with a focus on explainable AI, blockchain and cryptoassets. On both days, consideration will be given to the impact of the aforementioned issues on taxpayers’ rights.

The CPT-GREIT conference will offer attendees the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with specialists in taxation and other fields, in particular technology pundits, as well as digital business experts and officials from national and international/EU organizations.

Download the programme

Speakers / Moderators

Prof.Dr. Dennis Weber
Prof. Dr. Cecile Brokelind
Raffaele Russo
Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Douma
David Hadwick
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pistone
Jasper van Schijndel
Dr. Nevia Cˇ icˇin-Šain
Juan Manuel Vázquez
Willem-Jan Van Veen
Sven Kuipers
Francesca Vitale
Roland Rietberg
Alexander Hent
Prof. dr. Mariken van Hilten
Dr. Giorgio Beretta
Prof. Joachim Englisch
Prof. Marie Lamensch
Prof. Marta Papis-Almansa
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Dourado
Dr. Nuria Ramos Martín
Dr. Svitlana Buriak
Prof. Dr. Daniel Smit
Dr. Svetislav V. Kostic
Shu-Chien Chen
Prof. Annabelle Gawer
Dr. Dennis Post
Dr. Claudio Cipollini
Sascha Jafari
Marlies de Ruiter
Philip Kerfs
Dr. Luisa Scarcella
Dr. Błazej Kuzniacki
Prof. Evangelos Kanoulas
Dieter Brughmans
Marco Almada
Prof. Anthony Niblett
Prof Dr. Peter Fettke

Location

This will be an “in-person” event and it will be hosted at CREA Theater & Music on the campus of the UvA in the Netherlands.

Registration and Fee

The entrance fee is 200 euro for two days for non-students. For students it is free (registration mandatory); but paying participants have priority when there are not enough seats due to capacity limitations. Lunch is not included.

Please register by completing and sending the application form to ACTL-fdr@uva.nl.

Please register by completing and sending this form

More information

See the CPT project website

Contacts

Prof. dr. Dennis Weber, Director of the ACTL and CPT project, e-mail: d.m.weber@uva.nl

Mr. Juan Manuel Vázquez, Academic Coordinator of the CPT project; j.m.vazquez@uva.nl