At this year's VHB Annual Conference the article "Measuring Tax Complexity across Countries - A Survey Based Approach" of Thomas Hoppe, Deborah Schanz, Susann Sturm and Caren Sureth-Sloane has been awarded with the Best Conference Paper Award. More information: http://vhbonline.org/wissenschaftsfoerderung/konferenzpreise

On May 28th 2018, Thomas Hoppe presents at the scientific annual conference of the charity of Prof. Dr. oec. Westerfelhaus at the University of Bielefeld on the topic "Der Einfluss von steuerlicher Regulierung auf multinationale Unternehmen - Zwischenstand" (The Impact of Tax Regulation on Multinational Companies - Intermediate Status). 

On May 25th, 2018, Thomas Hoppe presents at the 80th VHB conference in Magdeburg on the topic "Measuring Tax Complexity Across Countries - A Survey Based Approach". 

On May 18th, 2018 Prof. Dr. Peter Fiechter presents at the TAF Research Seminar on the topic "Real Effects in Anticipation of Mandatory Disclosures: Evidence from the European Union’s CSR Directive".

Sievers, Sönke, Sureth-Sloane, Caren, Uhde, André (2018): Restrukturierungen: operative und finanzielle Wertbeiträge. Eine Betrachtung vor dem Hintergrund der Entwicklungen bei thyssenkrupp, Die Wirtschaftsprüfung, 71 (9), 569-575.

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.

On March 22nd, 2018, Caren Sureth-Sloane gives a presentation on "Tax Loss Offset Restrictions and Biased Perception of Risky Investments" at the ARCA Seminars in the Amsterdam Research Center in Accounting of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.