Ad Van Doesum

Ad van Doesum (1975) is Professor of European Value Added Tax Law at Maastricht University. He is also Senior Tax Manager with PwC, Amsterdam and honorary judge in the in the 's-Gravenhage (The Hague) Court of first instance.

Professr Van Doesum heads PwC's Indirect Taxes Legal Opinion & Litigation Practice. He also advises clients and other advisors on indirect taxes. Ad is a member of the expert group tax for Shopping2020 (expert group taxation). He has broad experience in national and international VAT Law and a particular expertise in the complex VAT issues attached to collaboration between organizations. In 2009, he obtained his doctorate on his thesis on 'Contractual Cooperative Arrangements and VAT'.

Ad van Doesum has authored and co-authored numerous publications on national and European VAT law and is regularly invited to speak on indirect taxation at conferences and seminars around the world. He is on the editorial boards of the Dutch encyclopedia on VAT ('Vakstudie omzetbelasting') and the 'Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Ondernemingsrecht'. Also, he is a member of the permanent committee of contributors to leading tax publications and is correspondent for various other journals. Furthermore, Professor Van Doesum is a member of the committees of the Dutch Association of Tax Science ('Vereniging voor Belastingwetenschappen') focusing on abuse of law (2016) and on transfer pricing and VAT (2016) and is president (2016) of the Master Thesis Awards Committee of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers.