Josef Schuch

Josef holds a Master of laws and an MBA degree. He received his doctorate in law in 1998 for a work on expenses and losses under tax treaty law and his postdoctoral qualification. in 2002 for a work on timing issues under tax treaty law. His research and publishing activities mainly focus on international tax law. Since 2002 he is a Professor of International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Josef is a partner of Deloitte Austria.

 

 

Stafford Smiley

Born in 1948, Mr. Smiley graduated from Harvard Law School in 1976 and served as clerk to Judge Arnold Raum of the United States Tax Court from 1976 to 1978. He joined the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, in Washington, DC, in 1978, became a member of the firm in 1982, and practiced at the firm as a full-time tax adviser until August 2008. He remains a member of Caplin & Drysdale, where he continues to practice part-time, specializing in U.S. international tax matters. Mr. Smiley has taught in the graduate tax programs of George Washington University and the Georgetown Law Center, at the New York University Institute of Taxation, and at universities in Poland, Russia and elsewhere in Europe and Asia. In September 2008, he joined the faculty of the Graduate Tax Program of Georgetown Law Center on a full-time basis. He currently serves as International Tax Editor for the U.S. legal journal Corporate Taxation.

 
Christoph Spengel

Born 1964 in Heidelberg, is a Professor of International Taxation at the University of Mannheim. His main research interests are in the areas of international taxation (tax planning, comparison of company tax burdens), company taxation in the European Union (tax harmonization, group taxation, profit allocation) and financial and tax accounting. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Visiting Professor at Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), International Research Fellow at Oxford University, Saïd Business School, Academic Director of the Executive Master of Accounting & Taxation, Mannheim Business School, and has been appointed as a member of the expert group on company taxation by the European Commission.

 

 

Claus Staringer

Claus Staringer was born in Vienna in 1967. He received his legal education at the University of Vienna as well as at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Claus Staringer is the author of a number of articles and publications. He is a professor for tax law at the WU. Since 1997 he is admitted as tax advisor (Steuerberater). He is a principal consultant with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Vienna

 

 
 

 

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