The Symposium of international tax law, which will be held at the University of Lausanne on 19 and 20 January 2016, is proud to offer a forum for discussion of the foregoing critical tax policy issues.
On 19 January, particular emphasis will be placed on CFC rules, harm- ful tax competition (the implementation of nexus based patent boxes by various countries), exchange of information and tax rulings, hybrid mismatches and abuse of tax treaties. We will also be discussing the beneficial ownership Swap case decided by the Swiss Supreme Court on 5 May 2015. On 20 January, on the other hand, we shall be looking at the compatibility of BEPS with EU law. Last but not least, we shall turn to the very latest on Switzerland’s corporate tax reform and the pos- sible future evolution of its fiscal policy.
The faculty of the Symposium shall consist in leading representatives from the OECD, the European Commission, Swiss Federal and Cantonal tax administrations as well as international and Swiss academics, practitioners from the private sector or industry.