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Guglielmo Maisto

Guglielmo Maisto

Work Department

Tax

Position

Prof. Guglielmo Maisto advises on domestic and international tax law, taxation of financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions and transfer pricing. He is also frequently retained for tax litigation.

He has authored, edited and contributed to numerous books and articles. Publications include 'Il transfer price nel diritto tributario italiano e comparato' (1985), 'La tassazione dei dividendi nei rapporti tra societa' madri e figlie nella Comunita' Europea' (1996). He is also the editor of the essays 'Tax Treatment of Cost Contribution Arrangements' (1988) and “The Future of the Profit Split Method” (2021) and of the annual series 'EC and International Tax Law' (IBFD – since 2005).

Career

Founder of Maisto e Associati, he is Professor (Professore associato) of international and comparative tax law at the Università Cattolica di Piacenza. He is Chair of the European Region and Italian branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), member of the Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam and of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. He sits on numerous committees, including the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and was a member of EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum. Frequent speaker at conferences. He sits on the editorial boards of various Italian and foreign tax and legal journals.

Languages

Italian, English

Memberships

Italian Bar Association (1980)

Italian Certified Public Auditors Association (1995)

The Law Society

American Bar Association

International Bar Association

Istituto de Fiscalidad Internacional

Union Internationale des Avocats

International Fiscal Association

Education

He graduated in Law (cum laude) at the University of Genoa and trained at the EC Commission, Directorate General IV. He received a Masters from the University of Amsterdam

Mentions

Italy

Tax

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