After already having won the competition in 2022 and 2023, the team from WU's Institute for Austrian International Tax Law delivered another great performance in 2024 and has again won first place at the International and European Tax Moot Court. The renowned competition, which took place between March 24 – 29 in Leuven (Belgium), is organized by KU Leuven in cooperation with IBFD and took place for the 20^th time.

All participating teams had to work on a fictitious case on a problem of international tax law. This year’s case concerned the taxation of a cross-border influencer and a corporation operating a video portal. At first, the students had to submit two memoranda – one from the perspective of the tax authority and one from the perspective of the taxpayer. After completing the written phase, 18 teams – including that of WU – qualified for the oral final round in Leuven.

At the final round (oral pleadings), the Institute’s team gave an outstanding performance. On the way to the winning title, the team prevailed against the HEC Paris, the National University of Kiew-Mohyla Academy, the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Tributário and the University of Luxembourg, finally delivering a great performance against the University of Maastricht in the final. In addition, the team was also awarded with a special prize: The award for the best memorandum on behalf of the defendant went to Julian Rabensteiner and Annina Schwärzli.

The Institute sincerely congratulates all the students (Julian Rabensteiner, Annina Schwärzli, Marius Pollitzer and Elisabeth Schlagenhaufen) and the coach Michael Gleiss!

In 2023, the team from WU's Institute for Austrian International Tax Law once again delivered an outstanding performance at the International and European Tax Moot Court and won the competition. The renowned Moot Court, which took place from March 26 to March 31, 2023, in Leuven (Belgium), is organized by KU Leuven in cooperation with IBFD and took place for the 19th time this year.

All participating teams had to work on a fictitious case on a problem of international tax law. At first, the students had to submit two memoranda – one from the perspective of the tax authority and one from the perspective of the taxpayer. After completing the written phase, 14 teams – including WU – qualified for the oral final round in Leuven.

At the final round (oral pleadings), the institute’s delivered an outstanding performance. After the team had competed against the universities of Bergamo (Italy) and Leuven in the preliminary round, the students pleaded against the teams of the universities of Maastricht (Netherlands) and Heidelberg (Germany) in the semi-finals.

Lastly, in a thrilling final, the students managed to win against the team from the University of Virginia (USA). In addition, the team was also awarded with several special prizes: Best Pleading Team (overall), Best Pleading Team Applicant, Best Memorandum of the Defendant and Best Individual Applicant (Mohamed Hemdan).

The institute sincerely congratulates the students (Manuel Dachs, Dominik Dorner, Mohamed Hemdan and Victoria Schwab) and the coach Michael Gleiss!

In 2022, the team of the Institute for Austrian International Tax Law at WU once again delivered an outstanding performance at the International and European Tax Moot Court, which was organized by KU Leuven (Belgium) in cooperation with IBFD between March 27 and April 1, 2022. The Moot Court was held for the 19^th time already, and once again, 32 teams from countries all over the world were able to prove their knowledge and skills in the field of international tax law.

In the course of the competition, all participating teams had to work on and negotiate a fictitious case concerning an international taxation issue. After the submission of written memoranda, 14 teams - including WU - qualified for the oral negotiation rounds in Leuven. In the oral rounds, again our team did an excellent job: In the semifinals, WU beat the University of Bergamo (Italy) as well as Thammasat University (Thailand), and won the competition as the world's best team in the final against Virginia Law School (USA).

Congratulations to the team (Laura Marie Liebel, Michaela Morgenbesser, Sophie Schönhart, Laura Vonier) and coach Theres Neumüller!

Our institute’s team delivered a brilliant performance at the International and European Tax Moot Court, which took place between March 18^th and 22^nd 2019 at KU Leuven (Belgium). Not only has our team reached the second rank in the final against University of Virginia, but it was also awarded prizes for best defendant pleading, best defendant memo, best defendant speaker (Ms Hanna Poss) and best pleading-team overall. So our institute’s team was the best European team in the whole competition!

Our team pleaded against the teams of IBDT Brazil, Carlos III Madrid (Spain), University of Düsseldorf (Germany) and University of Heidelberg (Germany) in the preliminary round and semifinal. All in all, 16 teams from Europe, the US and South America participated in the Moot Court.

Our congratulations to the team (René Dzoja, Sabrina Polanyi, Hanna Poss, Franziska Luisa Uedl) and to coach Annika Streicher!

At this year’s International and European Tax Moot Court in Leuven (Belgium) the WU team (LR: Daniel Gilhofer, Angelo Concin, Mario Riedl, Theres Neumüller with coach David Orzechowski) from the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law reached the semifinals as one of the 16 best teams and has been awarded the price for the best applicant memo. The competition included participating teams from Asia, Europe, South America and the US.

The Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law’s team manages to do the hat-trick at the International and European Tax Moot Court in Leuven (Belgium). The WU’s team won against 15 universities from all over Europe, the US and Africa for the third year in a row. In the final round, the team competed against KU Leuven in a case in front of high-ranking judges from the UK, France and the Netherlands.

Our congratulations go to the whole team and coach Laura Turcan!  

The team of the Institute for Austrian and International Taxlaw (Laura Turcan, Katja Haberl, Julia Karglmayer, Michael Brightwell, Stefan Frank) has won the "European Tax College Moot Court Competition 2016" in Leuven, Belgium. Congratulations!