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Dr. Ronald Russo appointed Professor of Tax Assurance

Published: 31st March 2016 Last updated: 30th April 2019

PRESS RELEASE 31 March 2016 - Tilburg University has appointed Dr. Ronald Russo to the chair of Tax Law, especially Tax Assurance as of March 1st, 2016. The chair has been established by the Deloitte Tax Assurance Fund. Russo has been working at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg of Tilburg University since 2006 and is responsible for both the education program and the research program on Tax Assurance.

In the Deloitte Tax Assurance Fund the Fiscal Institute Tilburg cooperates with Deloitte Tax Advisors BV. The Fund’s purpose is to stimulate research and education in Tax Assurance including post master education and PhD research. The post master Tax Assurance started in the beginning of March 2016. 

Ronald Russo conducts research on the concept of profit for taxation purposes and its interaction with profit for commercial purposes, in the Netherlands but also from an international perspective. Tax Assurance in its broadest sense is his main field of interest, including amongst others internal and management control, corporate governance, cooperative compliance and tax accounting. In 2015 he co-wrote and was sole editor of the book Tax Assurance (Wolters Kluwer Publishers).

 

Prof. Ronald Russo (1963) started his career in 1985 as a tax inspector and later switched to tax consultancy combined with engagements at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden. Since 2006 he has been working at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg of Tilburg University, formerly as academic director of Tax Economics program and now responsible for the Tax Assurance program. He is also of counsel advisor to Deloitte. He holds a PhD in (tax) law (1992).

 

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