{"id":141863,"date":"2022-06-24T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=141863"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:21","slug":"tax-law-look-at-our-publications-it-doesnt-get-any-more-transparent-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/06\/24\/tax-law-look-at-our-publications-it-doesnt-get-any-more-transparent-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax law: ‘Look at our publications, it doesn’t get any more transparent than that’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dutch TV current events programme Nieuwsuur <\/em>scrutinised the Department of Tax Law at the Erasmus School of Law. In recent years, five chairs have been financed externally<\/a>, some by interested parties such as the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) and tax consultancy firm EY<\/a>. Department chair Maarten de Wilde refutes that there has been any interference by external financiers and feels uncomfortable with the suggestion that his colleagues did not act with integrity.<\/p>\n

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Maarten de Wilde.<\/span><\/p>

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In the department of Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam, journalistic articles about the financial dependency and culture within the department led to the resignation of a professor and the department chair. The Amsterdam university magazine Folia reported on a culture where it is practically impossible to build a career if you do not also work for a large tax consultancy firm and on the influence of those firms. In the department of Tax Law at the EUR, there are also plenty of professors who have this kind of background. To what extent does that culture exist here as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of part-timers who also have ancillary jobs. In the department, we have a broad representation of people: those at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, in business, in the consultancy sector, law firms, the judiciary, the Ministry\u2026 At the same time, our professor of Local Taxes, for example, (Arjen Schep, whose chair is financed by a number of municipalities, ed.) is employed full-time by us. I think these connections with civil society are a good thing. The field of practice is about the functioning and application of the law, while we in science are looking for entirely different answers, specifically: \u2018How should the legal system work?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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