DigiTax

Presentations of Digitax members in 2021

DigiTax events and presentations of Digitax members in 2021

  • Cryptoassets: The taxation challenge" 
    • panel chaired by dr. Luisa Scarcella on November 10, 2021 at 2 pm CET on Hansuke's conference of the Furure of Tax. More information can be found here
  • GDPR impact of the digitalisation process within the tax administration 
    • presentation by Prof. dr. Sylvie De Raedt on the International Conference Time to Re-shape the Digital Society  organised by the Namur Digital Institute on November 18 and 19, 2021 on the . More information can be found here 
  •  "Data protection challenges for a digitalised tax administration"
    • masterclass teached by prof. dr. Sylvie De Raedt on November 9, 2021 for the Executive programme on Tax and Digital Transformation, organised by the Worldbank, the Asian Development Bank and Via University College (Denmark), together with Mie Sachman Svane, head of Advanced Analytics of the Danish Tax Administration ​
  • "La taxe sur les services numériques: qualification et conformité avec le droit européen et international" 
    • presentation of Prof. dr. Bruno Peeters on October 14, 2021 during a round table on Europeaan Taxation (Brussels). The event was organized by ICHEC-ESSF and UCLouvain on the occasion of the “Soirée d’hommage et de réflexions en mémoire du Professeur Jacques Autenne”  
  • Transparency as key requiremment for human rights protection
    • presentation of prof. dr. Sylvie De Raedt at the 6th International Conference on Taxpayer Rights organised by the Center for Taxpayer Rights (Washington), entitled: "Taxpayer Rights, Human Rights: Issues for Developing Countries". The presentation was given during the the panel on Digitalisation of the Tax Administration and the Impact for Taxpayer and Human Rights  
  • Automated Government for Vulnerable Citizens: Intermediating Rights
    • presentation of dr. Luisa Scarcella at the 6th International Conference on Taxpayer Rights organised by the Center for Taxpayer Rights (Washington), entitled: "Taxpayer Rights, Human Rights: Issues for Developing Countries". The presentation was given during the the panel on Digitalisation of the Tax Administration and the Impact for Taxpayer and Human Rights  ​​
  • The Fairness-Accuracy tradeoff revisited
    • keynote speech of prof. Toon Calders during the 2nd Workshop on Bias and Fairness during The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2021)
  • Learning a Fair Distance Function for Situation Testing
    • presentation of Daphne Lenders during the 2nd Workshop on Bias and Fairness during The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2021)
  • "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer: extending automatic exchange of information to crypto-assets transactions and the role of crypto-intermediaries" 
    •  Presentation of dr. Luisa Scarcella's paper during the the fall workshop of September 13, 2021 of the Copenhagen Business School. more information can be found here
  • ​​Interdisciplinary conference on computational taxation
    • Conference focused on fairness and transparency in tax technology (September 23, 2021)
  • ​Summer School on Legal Technology and Legal Innovation
    • Summers school on September 6-10, 2021
  • ​Taxation and Sustainable Development​
  • ​The COVID-19 crisis as a momentum for the creation of a European tax system
    • presentation of Dr. Luisa Scarcella (together with Francesco Grisostolo (Udine University) on July 5, 2021 on the Cambridge Tax Policy Conference 2021 organized by the Centre for Tax Law of the University of Cambridge. 
  • How to Manage the Risks for Human Rights in the Digital Transformation of Tax Authorities 
  • Regulation of artificial intelligence
    • Drs. David Hadwick presented his paper entitled 'Deus Tax Machina: How to regulate the use of AI by tax administrations in the EU?' in a panel on the regulation of artificial intelligence during the International Phd Coloquium of the Tilburg university on June 16, 2021. More information can be found here.
  • Taxing Data and Artificial Intelligence
    • ​Presentation of dr. Luisa Scarcella during the Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association which took place from the 26th to the 30th of May 2021. More information can be found here.

      On Thursday May 27, 2021, 4 pm CET, dr. Scarcella also chaired the panel 'International Taxation'. More information can be found here. On Sunday May 30,2021, 4pm CET, she commented on Daniel Shaviro's book Literature and Inequality. More information can be found here.

  • Convergence of human and artificial intelligence for better tax audit selection 
    • Presentation by Prof. Anne Van de Vijver who was part of the panel on 'Audit Selection in the Twenty-first Century' during the Fifth International Conference on Taxpayer Rights  on May 26-27, 2021 organised by the Center for Taxpayer Rights.  More information can be found here. 
  • Comparative perspectives on tax challenges faced by the global south
    • Prof. Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes was part of the roundtable on this topic organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Taxation and Fiscal Policy of the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on May 26, 2021. More information can be found here.
  • Landmark court cases on international tax practices
    • Dr. Luisa Scarcella acted as secretary for the IFA webinar on this topic on Thursday May 20,2021, 3.30 pm CET. More information on this webpage. 
  • The Legal Selling of Passports and Visas: The Influence of Institutional Characteristics
    • Paper presented bij Pedro Moraya Barros in the Doctoral Seminar Series hosted by Leeds University Business School, the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Antwerp, and Xiamen School of Management, Xiamen University, on Wednesday May 19, 2021.
  • Big data, artificial intelligence and tax payers' rights
    • Presentation of Prof. Anne Van de Vijver and Prof. Sylvie De Raedt on on April 1, 2021 for a major accountancy firm.  ​
  • Taxes and tax incentives: how tax systems can (better) integrate environmental considerations
    • Presentation of Tarcisio Magalhaes on an event organised by the University of Lisbon, the University of Oxford and UCLouvain on March 25, 2021, 2.30 pm CET.
  • Tax Chat on Artificial Intelligence and Taxpayers' Rights 
    • Tax chat organised by the Center for Taxpayers' Rights and hosted by Nina Olsen. Anne Van de Vijver, Toon Calders and Sylvie De Raedt were guests (March 16, 2021, 5 pm CET)
  • Big data, AI and tax fraud prediction
    • Inhouse seminar by Anne Van De Vijver and Sylvie De Raedt on March 9, 2021 for a major consultancy firm
  • Addressing Issues on Digital Taxation: a US and EU perspective 
    • Panel presentation by Kimberly Van Sande during the Second Annual Business and Finance Law Conference of the George Washington University on February 23, 2021 noon, full program and registration. 
  • ​​Fairness in Taxation of the Digital Economy
    • Presentation by Anne Van De Vijver  during the online workshop of the European Parliament on the taxation of the Digital Economy on February 12, 2021, 10-12 am, full program - webstreaming.
  • ​Digitalisation and Taxation in Less Developed Countries 
    • Interdisciplinary workshop on January 28, 2021, president: prof. Ann Jorissen, for invited research partners, online.
  • Promises and perils of digitalizing tax administrations and services 
    • Presentation of dr. Luisa Scarcella on the Global Summit of the University of Texas on January 15, 2021 in the panel on 'Digital and Automated: Emerging Challenges of the Welfare State'.