Tax cooperation between Italy and Switzerland at the heart of the final seminar of the Interreg CROCSIT project

On Thursday 15 October, from 2 pm to 5.30 pm, the Main Hall of the University of Insubria, at Via Ravasi 2 in Varese, will host the seminar «Administrative tax cooperation between Italy and Switzerland: from the exchange of information to international mutual agreement procedures», the final event in the series of meetings organised as part of the Interreg CROCSIT project.

The seminar will focus on the development of tax and administrative cooperation between Italy and Switzerland, with particular attention to the instruments available for cooperation between the two countries’ respective authorities and to procedures for resolving international tax disputes.

The event will examine the exchange of tax information, also in light of the 2020 Agreement on the taxation of cross-border workers, and the role of the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) provided for under the Convention for the avoidance of double taxation between Italy and Switzerland. Mutual agreement and arbitration procedures will also be analysed as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, with particular attention to their practical application and future developments.

During the afternoon, the CROCSIT digital platform will also be presented. The platform was developed to disseminate the results of the Interreg project on cross-border employment and to promote legal and administrative cooperation in border regions.

Programme

• «Instruments for administrative tax cooperation between Italy and Switzerland» – Gaetano Ragucci, Full Professor of Tax Law at the University of Milan.
• «The role of the MAP and its impact on domestic litigation in cross-border cases» – Giuseppe Corasaniti, Full Professor of Tax Law at the University of Brescia.
• «Presentation of the CROCSIT digital platform» – Marco D’Ambros, Director of CodeLounge, USI’s software research and development centre, and Francesca Amaddeo, lawyer and lecturer-researcher at the SUPSI Centre of Competence for Tax and Legal Studies.
• «The mutual agreement procedure under Swiss domestic law and Switzerland’s policy on arbitration clauses» – Samuele Vorpe, Full Professor of Tax Law and Head of the SUPSI Centre of Competence for Tax and Legal Studies.
• «The arbitration procedure under the BEPS Convention» – Simone Schiavini, lawyer and Counsel at Legance, Milan.

An aperitif will be served at the end of the seminar.

Participation is free and open to the public, subject to registration: register for the seminar.