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This year's UGO university reward for excellent bachelor theses is awarded to Andreas Pühl for his thesis titled with "Verrechnungspreise für immaterielle Wirtschaftsgüter" (Translated: Transfer pricing of intangible commodities) which was accompanied by the chair of Business Taxation of the University of Paderborn. We congratulate Andreas Pühl with pleasure on this special awarding by the entrepreneurs group Ostwestfalen-Lippe e.V.

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The plans of President Donald Trump regarding the introduction of a "reciprocal tax" on imports cause concern under German export companies.  F.A.Z., Trump gefährdet das deutsche Exportwunder, 14.02.2018, S.9.

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On February 12, 2018, Mr. Tobias Bornemann successfully defended his dissertation "Give and Take - Effects of Taxation on Firms' Innovation" at Vienna University of Economics and Business and, thus, successfully completed his doctorate. Mr. Bornemann has received his doctorate degree within the Doctoral Program in International Business Taxation (DIBT) at Vienna University of Economics and Business and was supervised by Prof. Dr. Caren…

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The 3-year interdisciplinary doctoral program for international corporate taxation with the participation of Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane at Vienna University of Economics and Business is held in English and is directed at students with high qualifications who work on this research field at the interface between business taxation, accounting, finance and international tax law to achieve an excellent interdisciplinary education. A scholarship can…

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The Schmalenbach-Foundation aims to support highly qualified and socially committed students of business oriented master degree programmes in a financial and non-material way. With the support of the Carl Lueg Foundation, the Schmalenbach Foundation provides 'Schmalenbach-Scholarships'. The closing date of applications for a scholarship for the winter semester 2017/2018 is November 30th 2017. You can find more information here (website is only…

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The department for Taxation, Accounting and Finance will be augmented in the upcoming semester with a new junior professorship: Regina Ortmann, Ph.D., a former doctoral candidate of the DIBT-doctoral program of the University of Vienna and former research assistant of this chair assumes the junior professorship for International Business Taxation. We congratulate her to this new task and wish her a successful start.

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Schmalenbach-Scholarships

The Schmalenbach-Foundation aims to support highly qualified and socially committed students of business oriented master degree programmes in a financial and non-material way. With the support of the Carl Lueg Foundation, the Schmalenbach Foundation provides 'Schmalenbach-Scholarships'. You can find more information here (website is only available in German).

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While the European business elite goes on a pilgrimage to the Silicon Valley to learn from the creative atmosphere, Google’s innovation Chief Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt comes to Paderborn. Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt, Alumnus of the Faculty of Economics at University of Paderborn, discusses how Google employees are encouraged and motivated to recognize their ideas and make them available to the corporation. What implications does this have for the design…

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