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Raffaele Russo

Raffaele is an expert on international taxation and on international and domestic tax policy. He has more than 20 years of experience, having worked with the IBFD in Amsterdam, the OECD in Paris and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome. At the OECD, he worked on double tax treaties and on transfer pricing. He played a key role in launching and delivering groundbreaking projects like the OECD work on tax and crimes and the work on aggressive tax planning, which later became the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, which he led until the delivery of the first phase of the Project in 2015. During his service at the Italian Ministry of economy and finance, he focused on reforming the tax administration and on the digitalization of invoices and receipts. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Cabinet in charge of taxation and of digitalization from early 2020 to March 2021. He lectures in leading universities around the world and speaks frequently at conferences and seminars. He has published more than 100 articles in Italian and foreign journals. · Chiomenti

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About

Raffaele Russo is an expert in international taxation and domestic tax policy with more than 20 years' experience at IBFD, the OECD and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He led OECD work on aggressive tax planning (later the OECD/G20 BEPS Project) until delivery of its first phase in 2015, served as Deputy Chief of Cabinet in charge of taxation and digitalization (early 2020–March 2021), and is an active lecturer and author of over 100 articles.

Practice areas

TaxInternational TaxTransfer PricingTax PolicyGovernment & Regulatory

Office

Expertise

Double Tax TreatiesTransfer PricingBEPS / Aggressive Tax PlanningTax Administration ReformTax Digitalization (invoicing/receipts)Tax and Financial Crime

Education

  • Master Up Level Napoli - Scuola di Management (Italy), 2000
  • Graduated in Law, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy), 2001
  • LL.M., International Taxation, Leiden University (Netherlands), 2002

Admissions

  • Member of the Rome Bar (Italy), 2022

Languages

ItalianEnglishSpanishFrench