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Subject areas
- Tax treaties (with a corporate or individual focus)
- Transfer pricing
- European tax law (indirect taxation and VAT)
- Corporate taxation (tax planning, hybrid instruments, debt/financial restructuring, etc.)
Course locations
Courses are held at the IBFD head office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as well as at other international locations, including Beijing, Kuala Lumpur and Barbados.
Features and benefits
Each year, hundreds of open-course participants from around the world benefit from:
Relevant and up-to-date topic coverage
ITA’s research staff are involved in continually updating course material and developing new courses to ensure that ITA offers relevant, up-to-date training on current issues.
Experienced instructors
Courses are delivered by experienced instructors from among IBFD’s multinational research staff. In addition, ITA has a network of over 100 freelance instructors, including tax practitioners from around the globe.
Practical, skills-based approach
Courses are interactive, including group discussions and case studies, and are designed to give participants a thorough understanding of the relevant principles and concepts, as well as skills to apply these principles in practice.
Extensive documentation and resources
Participants have access to a wealth of documentation and resources to supplement topics covered in their course and facilitate further study. In advance of each course, participants are granted access to supplementary articles, case law and other relevant literature as well as permitted access to selected IBFD online publications for a period of time after the course. At the start of the course, participants will also receive the course material in printed form.
Networking opportunities
Open courses provide an ideal platform for networking and sharing experiences with instructors and other practitioners from different regions and industry sectors.
ITA is accredited by a number of professional bodies, and course participants receive certificates, which can be used to obtain Continuing Professional Education credits with various organizations.
ITA also provides integrated training solutions, where online courses can be combined with live classroom training. In this way, key concepts can be studied online at the participants’ own pace, followed by classroom training focused on reinforcing and building on these concepts by exploring practical application and more complex issues.
