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.

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

Buriak, Svitlana. International Taxation of Global Value Networks. IBFD Doctoral Series 72. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IBFD, 2024.
Dagan, Tsilly. “Tax and Globalisation: Toward a New Social Contract” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 44, no. 3 (September 3, 2024): 487–508.
Elliffe, Craig. “The Quiet Evolution in International Tax: Domestic Law and Double Taxation” World Tax Journal 16, no. 4 (November 6, 2024).
Kostikidis, Savvas. Residence and Economic Substance of Subsidiary Corporations in International and European Tax Law. 1st ed. Series on International Taxation Series. Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer Law International, 2024.
Lammers, Jeroen. The Spirit of International Tax Law and International Corporate Tax Reform, IBFD Doctoral Series 76. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IBFD, 2024.
Oei, S-Y., and D.M. Ring. “The Conflictual Core of Global Tax Cooperation” World Tax Journal 16, no. 4 (November 26, 2024).

Previous award winners

11th edition: Buriak, Svitlana, "International Taxation of Global Value Networks.", IBFD Doctoral Series 72. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IBFD, 2024.
10th edition: Teo, Nikki, J., “The United Nations in Global Tax Coordination”, published by Cambridge University Press, 2023
9th edition: Collier, R., Dykes, I., “On the Apparent Widespread Misapplication of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines”, published by IBFD in Bulletin for International Taxation, Volume 76, no. 1
8th edition: Professor Dr Andrés Báez Moreno, “Because Not Always B Comes After A: Critical Reflections on the New Article 12B of the UN Model on Automated Digital Services”, published by IBFD in the World Tax Journal (Volume 13), No. 4, 2021
7th edition: Professor Adolfo Martín Jiménez, “Value Creation: A Guiding Light for the Interpretation of Tax Treaties?”, published by IBFD in the Bulletin for International Taxation (Volume 74), No. 4/5, 2020
6th edition: Professor Emeritus of Tax Brian Arnold, “The Evolution of Controlled Foreign Corporation Rules and Beyond”, published by IBFD in the Bulletin for International Taxation (Volume 73), No. 12, 2019
5th edition: Dr Aitor Navarro, “Transactional Adjustments in Transfer Pricing”, published by IBFD in 2018
4th edition: Professor Tsilly Dagan, “International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation”, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017
3rd edition: Professor Dr Romero Tavares, “Multinational Firm Theory and International Tax Law: Seeking Coherence”, published by IBFD in the World Tax Journal (Volume 8), No. 2, 2016
2nd edition: Professor Dr Wolfgang Schön, “Neutrality and Territoriality – Competing or Converging Concepts in European Tax Law?”, published by IBFD in the Bulletin for International Taxation (Volume 69), No. 4/5, 2015
1st edition: Dr John F. Avery Jones and Professor Dr Jürgen Lüdicke, “The Origins of Article 5(5) and 5(6) of the OECD Model”, published by IBFD in the World Tax Journal (Volume 6), No. 3, 2014

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