Global Tax Symposium 2026
The Global Tax Symposia (GTS) constitute an interdisciplinary research platform devoted to the fundamental questions of international and comparative taxation. Conceived as a genuinely global scholarly forum, the GTS bring together researchers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Asia–Pacific region, and Europe to examine contemporary tax issues as they are shaped by political, institutional, and economic developments of transnational significance.
Global Tax Symposium 2026 – University of Ferrara
The 2026 Global Tax Symposium will be organised and hosted by the University of Ferrara (Italy) as a two-day hybrid conference, enabling participation both on-site and online. The Symposium will take place on 19–20 February 2026 and will focus on substantive and institutional challenges in international, regional, and domestic tax law and policy.
Within this framework, the 2026 edition will provide a structured venue for advanced discussion on topics of special interest, including: the taxation of mobile work and digitalised business models; nexus without physical presence; tariffs and customs policy; green taxation; effective progressive taxation (with particular attention to ultra-high-net-worth individuals); wealth taxation; the interplay between EU and international tax law; the automation of tax administration and compliance (including AI in decision-making processes); and the evolving architecture of international tax governance, notably the respective roles of the OECD and the United Nations and their interaction with regional standard-setters.
The Symposium’s academic design combines plenary reflection with intensive paper sessions. The programme features a high-level panel discussion and a sequence of peer-commented presentations addressing, inter alia, the relationship between tax law and broader institutional order, the future of global tax instruments, the fiscal dimension of trade conflict, the translation of international tax standards into local realities, and emerging challenges in VAT jurisdiction, compliance, and administrative enforcement. Across sessions, papers are discussed by commentators with diverse disciplinary and regional backgrounds, reinforcing the GTS commitment to comparative and globally attentive scholarship.
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