Three international tax professors in Malta

World renowned international tax experts, professors Philip Baker, Guglielmo Maisto and Pasquale Pistone, will be visiting lecturers at MIM. The international presence of the Malta Institute of Management is once again giving unique opportunities to the financial services sector in Malta.

Each year MIM is providing the sector with opportunities. 2006 saw the launch of the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation, which is still running successfully. In 2007 MIM held the Diploma.

In VAT compliance, The International Taxation Conference and now the EC Tax Law courses. In November, MIM will have Dr Christiana H.J.I. Panayi, lecturer in Tax Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary, University of London.

Professor Maisto founded Maisto e Associati in 1991. He is a Professor of Tax Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza; he has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam.

He is chairman of the legal and tax committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He is a member of several law societies internationally and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals.

He is a member of the executive committee of the International Fiscal Association and has acted as general and national reporter at several of its annual congresses.

Professor Pistone is fluent in seven EU languages and graduated in Law magna cum laude at the Federico II University of Naples in 1990. He gained his Ph.D. cum dignitate publicationis in International and Comparative Tax Law at the University of Genoa in 2000.

In the past decade he has been lecturing at a number of universities and scientific institutions in Europe and South America, as well as reporting at a number of international tax conferences and seminars.

He is an associate professor of tax law at the University of Salerno, where he has been lecturer since 2001, and a member of the Faculty of various LL.M. programmes in International and European Tax Law across Europe (European Tax College, Leiden and Vienna LL.M. programmes in International Tax Law).

He is also a member of the editorial board of the specialised international tax review Intertax and author of two books and more than 50 publications in five EU languages.