Adam Zalasinski

Senior Legal Officer (Taxation) at EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Speaker

Adam Zalasiński is a senor legal officer in the Legal Affairs-Direct Taxation Unit of the European Commission in Brussels. He is the Unit’s coordinator of cases concerning tax abuse and avoidance, issues related to DTCs and cross-border loss relief.

He holds a PhD and a habilitation in law from the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). He specializes in International and EU tax law. He has been publishing extensively on various aspects of EU and international tax law (above 100 scientific publications). He authored the EU reports for the 2013, 2019 and 2023 IFA Congresses and the General Report on “Direct tax rules and the EU fundamental freedoms” for the 2006 Congress of Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE). He has written several Polish national reports for the congresses of the International Fiscal Association, Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen and the European Association of Tax Law Professors.

He gives courses on EU direct tax law at various European universities. He is a member of the IFA Permanent Scientific Committee.