IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law

This annual award promotes and celebrates scientific research of the highest standards. An international jury judges the submitted publications and selects the work that makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of international tax law.

Frans Vanistendael

About the Frans Vanistendael Award

 

The proposed dotation for the Frans Vanistendael Award is EUR 10,000, plus a flat amount for travel and accommodation expenses incurred by attending the award ceremony (if the ceremony takes place on IBFD's premises).

Eligible publications are all articles, books, book chapters and monographs on international tax law (including European Union tax law), in paper or digital format (with an ISBN or ISSN number), published in English between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 that have provided an outstanding contribution to the development of international tax law. In case of doubt, the temporal criterion to ascertain eligibility is the date of the ISBN/ISSN.

The conferral of the 12th IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award will take place in May 2026. 

Find out more about the 2025 award and our most recent winners.

Application procedure and rules

Applications may be submitted by anyone (therefore not just by the author) by 31 December 2025 via e-mail to ibfd.award@ibfd.org

Competition Rules

Jury

The 2026 edition will be carried out with the support of the following jury members:

Philip Baker, Joachim Englisch, Na Li, Pasquale Pistone (Chairman), Stephen Shay, Maria Teresa Soler Roch, Jennifer Roeleveld, Luis Schoueri, Dikshit Sengupta.

Shortlist – 11th IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award 2025

Previous award winners