Hans van den Hurk is an international tax advisor with extensive experience

Hans van den Hurk

Partner

Email hans@hhp.law

About Hans van den Hurk

Cases where Hans van den Hurk was involved in were:

International tax:

several situations of International Business restructuring and profit allocation where more than two states are involved;
cases dealing with questions around whether a permanent establishment exitsts;
cases about profit allocation to a permanent establishment;
beneficial Owner disputes under OECD as well as under UN model tax convention;
cases which relate to the application of anti-abuse legislation, in most situations leading to a withholding tax being levied which comes in conflict with tax treaties and/or EU directives.

And within EU-law:

cross border loss compensation cases;
business restructurings and capital tax issues;
cases which relate to the application of anti-abuse legislation, in most situations leading to a withholding tax being levied which comes in conflict with tax treaties and/or EU directives;
cases which relate to the application of anti-abuse legislation, leading to a denial of interest deduction which comes in conflict with primary EU-law;
State Aid issues.

Tax practice

Hans van den Hurk is an international tax advisor with extensive experience in domestic, bilateral and multilateral international tax controversies. He has run and is running several cases before Dutch courts and the European Court of Justice and supervised many foreign court cases for multinationals, big four and other law firms.

His day-to-day litigation work deals mainly with post-BEPS international tax law. Three main topics take the lead here: transfer pricing, permanent establishments, and abuse (often in relation to withholding taxes). Please reach out to Hans if you have an issue regarding one of these subjects or when you are involved of a court case. He can certainly modify you argumentation and come up with a strategy which increases the chances of success. If you expect an issue or doubt the argumentation from your current tax litigators, please reach out to us also.

Another part of his work deals with opinions. Together with the team we can provide you with opinions on international tax or VAT topics you want to achieve more certainty on.

Finally, Hans will be your speaking partner if you want to roll out a new tax strategy and want to make sure it fulfils your demands and compliance conditions in more and more countries. In line with this he can help you with defining a tax footprint which not only helps you committing to the rules but also provide you with aid with respect to your external tax communications.

Academic

He frequently speaks and publishes on new international tax issues around the globe. Some of his contributions have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Japanese.

Since 2005 Hans is a full university professor (on a parttime basis) at Maastricht University and a member of the Dutch Organization for Tax advisors (NOB), Dutch foundation of Tax Science and of course the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

Bilateral investment treaties:

writing an expert opinion for one of the stakeholders in a bilateral investment treaty arbitrage dealing with ‘ fair and equitable treatment’.

Reach out to Hans