Projects
Deus Tax Machina - An inquiry into the use of AI by tax administrations in the EU and its implications for taxpayers' privacy and data protection rights University of Antwerp
Exploring the role of Aβ, Tau and Tau modulators in inducing neuronal death in a novel humanized mouse model for Alzheimer Disease KU Leuven
Neuronal cell loss is an ultimate hallmark of the many neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, neuronal cell death phenotype is seldom investigated. In AD, the relationship between Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, Tau, and neuronal death is a central problem. Nevertheless, cell culture or animal models do not reproduce well the cell death phenotype that is crucial to analyze this relation. As it remains unclear to what ...
Auditor-provided tax services as a multifaceted tax planning strategy in private Belgian firms KU Leuven
This dissertation examines determinants of corporate income tax outcomes in a private firm setting. Three different settings are examined: before, during and after corporate income tax calculation. The first chapter examines the link between working capital management and tax prepayment outcomes. The second chapter examines if, and if so, how reputational concerns act as a disincentive to tax avoidance using survey data from SMEs. Lastly, the ...
The tax treatment of interest and dividends under tax treaties from the perspective of law and economics. KU Leuven
The tax treatment of interest and dividends under tax treaties from the perspective of law and economics KU Leuven
There is an assumption in academic literature and legal practice that tax treaties are effective, i.e. that they succeed in removing tax obstacles and therefore lead to an increase in economic activity between both contracting states. However, there has been remarkably little fundamental research in order to assess whether that assumption is correct. An analysis on the basis of law and economics may offer valuable insights in this respect. ...
Identification and functional analysis of extracellular Tau species involved in the spreading of Tau pathology KU Leuven
It is the objective of this project to first fully understand what are the characteristics of this fragments present outside cells. The second main objective would be to analyze what is the functional effect of these species. This will be investigated both in vitro and in vivo, by using rat and mouse primary cultures, and the C. Elegans model, which was used already to study Tauopathies and Tautoxicity
Foundations for the private detection and public sanctioning of the laundering of tax fraud proceeds: a fundamental legal research on the extraordinary position of tax evasion as a predicate offence for money laundering. KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the legal compatibility of the criminalisation of tax fraud on the one hand and the so-called ‘preventive’ and ‘repressive’ action against the laundering of criminal proceeds on the other. The central research question is whether the application of anti-money laundering legislation to tax fraud proceeds is to be considered a legal necessity or, on the very contrary, a legal fallacy.
In a first part, it is ...
Characterization of growth regulatory protein complexes in plants via multi-functional TAP technology. Ghent University
Proteins are one of the key components in the complex regulatory networks that underlie biological processes. Although some work independently, most proteins form interactions with other proteins or macromolecules, such as RNA and DNA, to perform their function. To aid functional annotation in plants in a system-wide manner, a wide variety of techniques have been constructed over the years
(Chapter 1), which often imply a ...
Syngas Purification by Plasma Tar Cracking KU Leuven
Gasification is a well-known technology able to convert any carbon-rich raw material into a producer gas containing mainly hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, among others. Because of that, gasification has been revisited in the last decade as an option to avoid landfilling municipal solid waste (MSW) or even for recovering materials and energy from excavated MSW through the Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) approach. However, the producer ...