MADRID VAT FORUM 2023. Present and future challenges of EU VAT. Towards a digital VAT management?

The digitalization of the economy is a reality that is moving at an incredible speed and affects many aspects of VAT management, such as submission of returns or invoicing. It also entails the emergence of new formal obligations for actors that were not relevant years ago, such as payment service providers.

At the same time, we must strike a balance between digitalization, automation and a correct application of the governing VAT rules to the multiple scenarios that may happen to businesses. The question that VAT stakeholders have been trying to answer for past years is whether VAT management can be fully digitalized.

Speakers:

• Agustín Míguez Pérez, VAT Policy officer DG TAXUD. VAT Unit European Commission.
• Marta Papis-Almansa, Associate Professor, Tax Law, University of Copenhagen. VAT Expert Group EU Commission.
• Giorgio Beretta, Assistant Professor (University of Amsterdam / ACTL); Senior Lecturer (Lund University); Kluwer International Tax Blog - Editor In Chief.
• Madeleine Merkx, BDO The Netherlands; Professor of Indirect Taxes Erasmus University.
• Bernardo Almeida, Global Head of Indirect Tax - Strategy & Policy at Farfetch.
• Fernando Matesanz, Spanish VAT Services; Madrid VAT Forum Foundation. VAT Expert Group EU Commission.
• Francisco Javier Sánchez Gallardo, State Treasury Inspector. Former Member of the Central Economic-Administrative Court. Former Deputy Director (VAT) in the Spanish Sub-directorate General of the Directorate General of Taxes.