Maisto e Associati

Tax

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).

Founder of Maisto e Associati, he is Professor (Professore associato) of international and comparative tax law at the Università Cattolica di Piacenza. He is global President of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), member of the Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam, member of the Practice Council of New York University (NYU) Law’s International Tax Program and member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. He represents the Italian Association of Industries (Confindustria) at 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 the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum. In 2023 he was appointed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance as member of the Technical Committee established for the implementation of the Italian Tax Reform. He is one of the independent persons of standing eligible as a member of the Advisory Commission provided for in the EU Directive on Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the European Union. He is a member of several law societies and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He usually participates as speaker to several annual tax conferences.

Italian, English

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

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