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Professor Martin Wenz and Dr. Tanja Kirn speak at the Tax Management Commission Spring Conference at the University of Graz


At the University of Graz on 25 and 26 February 2011, during the Tax Management Commission Spring Conference with the German Academic Association for Business Research, Professor Martin Wenz spoke about the conception and structuring of the completely revised tax legislation in Liechtenstein.

At the University of Graz on 25 and 26 February 2011, during the Tax Management Commission Spring Conference with the German Academic Association for Business Research, Professor Martin Wenz spoke about the conception and structuring of the completely revised tax legislation in Liechtenstein.

Here he paid particular attention to the basic ideas and guidelines behind the tax reform, as well as its mission statement, strategy and concept, and gave an overview on the taxation of individuals and legal entities, as well as asset management structures. In a workshop, Dr. Tanja Kirn spoke to postdoctoral researchers and junior professors about methods for measuring the effective marginal tax burden. Here she introduced an approach permitting history-based measurement using tax data as a basis.

Other speakers at the Tax Management Commission Spring Conference with the German Academic Association for Business Research at the University of Graz were: Professor Markus Diller (University of Passau), Dr. Michael Overesch (University of Mannheim), Professor Wolfram Scheffler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Professor Norbert Herzig (University of Cologne), Professor Sebastian Schanz (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg) and Professor Jochen Hundsdoerfer (Freie Universität Berlin).

The Tax Management Commission Spring Conference is an annual event initiated and conceived by the German Academic Association for Business Research. The speakers would like to thank the organizers and initiators for the warm welcome and for the numerous ideas and suggestions which were generated by the discussion.