A seminar on Windfall Profit taxation will be held at the University of Ferrara, Department of Law, on March 9th 2023 (09.00 - 18.30).
Attendance is free but registration is welcome.
On that occasion we will discuss the nature, the purpose and the feasibility of a windfall profit taxation as a mean to raise revenue in extraordinary times.

We will also discuss about the sustainability of such a method of taxation (hence the title of the event "Made to Last ?") and the compatibility with Constitutional principles and the international tax treaty network.

The event shall be in presence only and will feature speakers from the US, Israel and Italy (Dario Stevanato, Fabrizio Amatucci, Pietro Selicato, Reuven Avi-Yonah and Yoseph Edrey). The list is open as others will follow.

We welcome presentations from PhD candidates, Postdoc or researchers at an early stage of their career. If you are interested, please sent an extended abstract of your presentation to Professor Marco Greggi (grgmrc@unife.it) no later than February 7th 2023. Selected applications will be notified in the next days.

Accommodation expenses in Ferrara will be covered by the organizing committee. Alas, we have no funds to cover travel expenses.

Papers and abstract presented will be published by the University of Ferrara Series.

More info can be found here.

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Programme

09.00 - 09.30  Welcome and Introduction to the Seminar

Serena Forlati, University of Ferrara (TBC)
Giovanni De Cristofaro, University of Ferrara (TBC)
Marco Greggi, University of Ferrara

09.30 - 10.00  An inquiry into the Nature of Windfall Profit Taxation
Dario Stevanato, University of Trieste
10.00 - 11.00  
Elena Briguglio and Anna Miotto, Extraordinary tax policies for extraordinary times: Windfall Profit Taxation in Europe
Filippo Luigi Giambrone, Windfall Profit Taxes

11.00 - 11.30  Windfall Profit Taxation and EU Law
Fabrizio Amatucci, University of Naples “Federico II”
11.30 - 12.30  
Gabriella Csűrös and Lovas Dóra, The windfall tax compatibility with the EU law, especially with regard to Hungarian rules
Francesco Bertocco, EU Energy Windfall Tax(es), Between Doubtful Legal Basis and National Measures. An Italian Perspective

12.30 - 13.30  Lunch

13.30 - 14.00  What is a Windfall profit ? A “Extraordinary Tax” for “Extraordinary Times”?
Reuven Avi Yonah, University of Michigan
14.00 - 15.00 
Aurora De Roma, The (tax) nature of the extraordinary contribution against high utility bills: critical issues and possible doubts of constitutional legitimacy
Eleonora Addarii and Valentina Passadore, Comparing Windfall Profit Tax with Robin Hood Tax
Mateusz Kaźmierczak, Digital Economy - the birthplace of permanent windfall?

15.00 - 15.30 Windfall taxation and International Tax Treaties
Pietro Selicato, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
15.30 - 16.30 
Jasna Bogovac, Windfall tax in Croatia - a new illusion about fair redistribution of income?
Francesco Paolo Schiavone, Windfall profit tax and compatibility with the principle of non tax discrimination: what is not right?

16.30 - 17.00  Addressing inequalities via Windfall profit taxation
Yoseph Edrey, University of Haifa
17.00 - 18.00 
Maria Viscolo, Inequality: regulating the extra-profit tax, a hypothetical remedy
Costanza Lugli, Constitutional Profiles of the Windfall Profits Tax in the Light of Electricity Pricing Methods

18.00 - 18.10  Concluding Remarks

Marco Greggi, University of Ferrara

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