Europaudvalget 2024-25
EUU Alm.del Bilag 241
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EU TAX SYMPOSIUM 2025
Strengthening competitiveness and fairness to build
prosperity
17 March evening 2025
Gala dinner (by
invitation only)
Keynote speech:
TBC
18 March 2025
Programme (version 12 February 2025)
8.00 – 9.00 Welcome breakfast and registration (60 min)
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome and introduction by Master of Ceremony
9.10 – 9.25 Opening speeches:
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Vice-President in charge of National Parliaments, MEP
Esteban
González Pons
Chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters, MEP
Pasquale Tridico
9.25 – 9.40 Keynote speech (15 min)
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Tax priorities for the new Commission
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Commissioner
Wopke Hoekstra,
European Commission
9.40 – 11.05 Panel 1 (85min)
Challenges for a fair contribution of ultra-high-net-worth individuals
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Amélie de Montchalin,
Minister Delegate for the Budget and Public Accounts,
France (TBC)
Regina Doherty,
MEP, Vice-chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Esther Lynch
General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation
(ETUC)
Dan O'Brien,
Chief Economist, Institute of International and European Affairs
Gabriel Zucman,
Associate professor of economics, University of California,
Berkeley; Director, EU Tax Observatory
Moderator:
Céline Gauer,
Director-General, Reform and Investment Task Force,
European Commission
11.05 – 11.35 Networking coffee break (30 min)
11.35 – 13.00 Panel 2 (85 min)
EU sustainable competitiveness: What taxation can or cannot do?
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Carlos Cuerpo Caballero,
Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain
Maria Antonia Azpeitia Gamazo,
Baker McKenzie, Madrid
Bruno Gonçalves,
MEP, Subcommittee on Tax Matters
Mariana Mazzucato,
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public
Value, University College London (TBC)
Lucio Vinhas de Souza,
Director of the Economics Department and Chief
Economist of Business Europe
Moderator:
Gerassimos Thomas,
Director-General for Taxation and Customs Union,
European Commission
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break (90 min)
14.30 – 14.45 Keynote speech (15 min)
Impact of tax systems to strengthen competitiveness and fairness
(tbc)
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Mathias Cormann,
Secretary-General, OECD
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14.45 – 16.00 Panel 3 (75 min)
European and international corporate tax reform: What are the next
steps?
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Tommaso Faccio,
Head of Secretariat of the Independent Commission for the
Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)
Vitor Gaspar,
Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Liselott Kana,
Co-Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on International Tax
Cooperation in Tax Matters
Roberta Poza Cid,
EU Tax Policy Leader, Partner Deloitte, Spain
Moderator:
Susana Ruiz,
Oxfam International’s Tax Policy Lead
16.00 – 16.30 Networking coffee break (30 min)
16.30 – 17.55 Panel 4 (85 min)
Artificial intelligence for tax systems: Challenges, opportunities and
risks
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Vikram Chand,
Professor, University of Lausanne
Chloe Fox,
Tax Director, PwC
Gemma Galdón-Clavell,
Founder and CEO, Eticas Consulting
Ferenc Vagujhelyi,
Commissioner, National Tax and Customs Administration
of Hungary
Daniel Waldenström,
Professor of Economics, Research Institute of Industrial
Economics (IFN)
Moderator:
Roberto Viola,
Directorate-General for Communications Networks,
Content and Technology at European Commission
17.55 – 18.00 Conclusions:
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Chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters, MEP
Pasquale Tridico
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Director-General of DG TAXUD,
Gerassimos Thomas
18.00 – 19.30 Networking cocktail
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