Universiteit Maastricht

Tax Law

All research of the Department of Tax Law has been concentrated in the programme Fiscal Aspects of the Internal Market of the Ius Commune Research School.

Programme manager: Prof. Rainer Prokisch

Within this programme Maastricht research covers the following two main areas:

1. Cross-border taxation of individuals
This area of research includes European conflict-rules concerning the taxation of labour, pensions and social security of persons who operate cross-border as well as comparative legal issues in respect to differences in national taxation of income, like alimony payments, the treatment of special-needs groups, and alike.

2. International and European business and environmental taxation
This area of research includes issues covering tax competition & policy, state aid, tax treaty application and their relation to European fundamental freedoms as well as related issues of environmental taxation of business activities (ecotaxes).