ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Responsible tax for a sustainable future
Presented by: Tax Law Commission
Workshop #7
DATE & TIME
LOCATION
Thursday, 5 September
14:00 – 16:00
Hotel Parco dei Principi (Meeting room to be communicated in the event mobile app)
DESCRIPTION
Climate change is a reality. In response to the biggest crisis facing humanity, governments are increasingly using environmentally-related taxes as a regulatory tool to encourage further sustainable development, green investment and innovations, as well as to discourage unsustainable behaviour and practices. For some companies, such taxes resulted in penalties on their greenhouse gas-intensive practices. For others, these provoked a shift to greener products or production processes and most of these companies have already benefited from new tax breaks.
The session of the Tax Law Commission will take a closer look at the role of existing taxes as a tool to promote sustainable behaviour, from the food we eat to the buildings where we work and live, and to the construction of new taxation tools for a sustainable behaviour. The session will also address the challenges that sustainable taxation brings to the competitiveness of developed and developing countries.
Detailed schedule:
The role of taxation: From income redistribution to behavioural modifier
- Introduction & Moderation – David Areias, Areias Advogados (Portugal)
- Promoting equality – Diego Conte, Studio Legale De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani (Italy)
- Promoting healthy and sustainable food – Inga Zillmer, Rechtsanwältin│Fachanwältin für Steuerrecht (Germany)
- Promoting green and sustainable buildings –Ferenc Ballegeer, FB – Tax & Private Wealth Law (Belgium)
- Promoting Green and Sustainable Companies –Nicolas Duboille, Sumerson Partners (France)
Building new tools for a sustainable behaviour
- Introduction & Moderation – Gustavo Yanes Hernández, Monereo Meyer Abogados (Spain)
- Building taxes for the environment – Pietro Mastellone, Studio Legale Mastellone (Italy)
- Sustainable competitiveness: Challenges for developed countries – Alessandro Foti, Studio Legale De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani (Italy)
- Sustainable competitiveness: Challenges for developing countries –José Maurício Abreu, Farroco Abreu Advogados (Brazil); and Grace Lin, Cuatrecasas (China)
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
José Maurício Abreu
Farroco Abreu Guarnieri Zotelli, Brazil
Speaker
Nicolas Duboille
Sumerson, France
Speaker
Grace Lin
Cuatrecasas, China
Speaker
Gustavo Yanes Hernández
Monereo Meyer Abogados, Spain
Moderator
Ferenc Ballegeer
FB-Tax & Private Wealth Law, Belgium
Speaker
Alessandro Foti
De Berti Jacchia, Italy
Speaker
Inga-Kristin Zillmer
Rechtsanwältin │ Fachanwältin für Steuerrecht, Germany
Speaker
Diego Conte
De Berti Jacchia, Italy
Speaker
Pietro Mastellone
Mastellone, Italy
Speaker
David Salgado Areias
Areias Advogados, Portugal
Moderator
GENERAL REPORTERS
David Salgado Areias
Areias Advogados, Portugal
Guadalupe Díaz-Súnico Aboitiz
Lener, Spain
Aliasghar Kanani
Bonnard Lawson, Switzerland
Jessica Kemp
Travers Smith, UK