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Tanja Bender
Born in 1965. Studied tax law at Leiden University. Since her graduation in 1987 she is lecturing at this university; since 1990 on a parttime basis. From 1990-2005 she worked as a tax adviser for Loyens & Loeff; in 2005 she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she became a tax partner advising Dutch multinationals on corporate tax issues. For her dissertation on the Dutch exemption method for the avoidance of international juridical double taxation she obtained a doctorate in law from Leiden University. Tanja Bender was appointed a professor at Leiden University in 2001. Professor Bender has written many articles for legal periodicals and has contributed to several loose leaf services. She has often been a guest lecturer, in the Netherlands and abroad, for academic scholars as well as tax practioners. Together with Kees van Raad she is program director of the Dutch language two year LLM in International Taxation.

Recent publications include:
(2005) T. Bender, F.A. Engelen, "The final clause of the 1987 Netherlands Model Tax Convention and the interpretation of plurilingual tax treaties", Liber amicorum Maarten J. Ellis, IBFD, Amsterdam, pp. 12-33; (2002) T. Bender, F.A. Engelen, "Hinken op twee gedachten in een driehoekssituatie", Weekblad Fiscaal Recht 6500, pp. 1461-1470; (2001) T. Bender, C. van Raad, S.C.W. Douma, "De Hoge Raad op een drielandenpunt", Weekblad Fiscaal Recht, 6431, pp. 527-545; (2000) De vrijstellingsmethode ter voorkoming van internationaal dubbele belasting 709 pp. Het positiefrechtelijke deel is verschenen als Fiscale Monografie: Vrijstelling ter voorkoming van dubbele belasting, Kluwer, Deventer, 494 pp.; (1999) "Enkele aspecten van de grondslageis in de voorkoming van dubbele belasting", Weekblad Fiscaal Recht, pp. 1107-1112.


Course: Key Concepts of International Tax Law