The Malta Institute of Management is organising a one-day training course on EU legislation affecting direct tax issues. The course, highly useful for accountants, lawyers and revenue officials, will also focus on how Maltese undertaking business abroad or locally may be affected by EU direct tax legislation.
The course will provide an overview of EU legislation, while addressing other issues such as the relationship between the EU and Maltese tax regime, mergers, savings, interest and royalties, arbitration, mutual assistance in recovery of taxes and exchange of information and state aid.
Other issues, such as the code of conduct on business taxation, the parent-subsidiary directive and the draft proposals for a common consolidated corporate tax base, will be addressed.
The course will look at the complex provisions of these instruments and their effects on Maltese tax law and will refer to relevant case law affecting their interpretation.
The seminar, to be delivered by Christiana Panayi, will be held on January 31 at the MIM premises in Alamein Road, Pembroke.
A certificate will be awarded to the participants. Dr Panayi is a lecturer in tax law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she also lectures on international tax law and UK business taxation. She is also a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and is the main UK investigator on the common consolidated corporate tax base.
Dr Panayi studied at Oxford University for a BA in Jurisprudence and for the BCL. She also holds a Ph.D from the London School of Economics. She is a solicitor of England and Wales and an advocate of the Malta Supreme Court. Before joining Queen Mary, she worked for Allen and Overy.
Dr Panayi is also a member of the Law Society and the Malta Bar Association. She is also a member of the steering group committee of the OECD's International Network of Tax Research. She has published extensively in the area of EC and international tax law.
She is on the editorial board of Lexis Nexis EU Tax Case Tracker, a regular speaker at tax conferences and teaches abroad. She has lectured at NYU, Vienna University, the Academy of European Law at the University of Malta and at MIM.
Applications will be accepted online at www.maltamanagement.com/2009/01/eu-direct-tax-directives/. For more details, including fees, call MIM on 2145 3097.