World-renowned international tax experts Professor Philip Baker, Professor Guglielmo Maisto and Professor Pasquale Pistone will be visiting lecturers at the Malta Institute of Management.
The international presence of MIM is once again giving unique opportunities to the financial services sector in Malta. Every year, it provides the sector with new opportunities. Last year saw the launch of the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation, which is still running successfully. This year MIM have held the Diploma in VAT Compliance, The International Taxation conference and now the EC Tax Law courses. And in November, MIM will have Dr Christiana HJI Panayi, lecturer in tax law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
Prof. Guglielmo Maisto founded Maisto e Associati in 1991. He is a professor of tax law at the Catholic University of Piacenza and has acted as a consultant to the Ministry for European Community Affairs and is chairman of the delegated Board of Trustees of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam. He is also chairman of the legal and tax committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and represents the Italian Association of Industries at the OECD Business Industry Advisory Committee in Paris. He is a member of several international law societies and of the editorial board of various Italian and foreign tax legal journals. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Fiscal Association and has acted as general and national reporter at several of its annual congresses.
Prof. Pasquale Pistone is fluent in seven EU languages and graduated in Law magna cum laude at the Federico II University of Naples in 1990. He gained his PhD cum dignitate publicationis in International and Comparative Tax Law at the University of Genoa in 2000. For the past decade he has been lecturing at a number of universities and scientific institutions in Europe and South America, as well as reporting at a
number of international tax conferences and seminars.
He is an associate professor of tax law at the University of Salerno, where he has been a lecturer since 2001, and a member of the Faculty of various LL.M programmes in international and European tax law across Europe (European Tax College, Leiden and Vienna LL.M. programmes in international tax law). In addition, he is a member of the editorial board of the specialised international tax review Intertax and the author of two books and more than 50 publications in five EU languages.
Prof. Philip Baker joined Gray’s Inn Chambers in 1987, having been a full-time lecturer in law at London University from 1979 up until then. He has maintained some links with academia, and is now Visiting Professorial Fellow in international taxation at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He specialises primarily in the international aspects of taxation, which covers both corporate and private client matters. He also has a particular interest in taxation and the European Convention on Human Rights, on which he has been involved in training the general and special commissioners and members of VAT tribunals.
Prof. Baker is a member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, of the Committee of the UK Branch of the International Fiscal Association, and the International Tax Sub-Committee of the Law Society. In 1997 he was awarded an OBE for work with Chinese political refugees in the UK.
MIM training chairman Reuben Buttigieg said that these new courses, together with the forthcoming conference on EC Tax Law, are a further contribution being made by MIM to the financial services industry in Malta.
If Malta is truly to become the EuroMed financial services centre, then specialisation in these important areas is fundamental. Thanks to MIM, Malta is the only EU country apart from the UK that provides such specialised training.
Mr Buttigieg is encouraging members of the MIM, as well as tax professionals, accountants and lawyers in Malta, to benefit from the opportunities presented by the Malta Institute of Management.