Cees Peters

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Cees Peters works as a Full Professor of Tax Law at the Fiscal Institute Tilburg of Tilburg University. Since January 1, 2024, he has been Head of Department at the Tax Law Department.

Cees wrote numerous national and international publications. His multidisciplinary work was awarded the prestigious 2019 Jaap van den Berge Literature Award for his contribution to the development of tax law in the Netherlands. Cees’ key contributions include a book called 'On the legitimacy of international tax law', a study of the interaction between state aid law and transfer pricing law and a critical analysis of the legitimacy of the OECD’s work on Pillar Two.    

Cees is interested in the interactions between tax law and society in general and the relationship with the political system in particular. There is an undesirable gap between citizens and the government when it comes to both the creation and the application of tax law. Therefore, Cees is going to study how citizens can be better involved in the democratic process of creating tax laws. Peters is also keen on further developing principles of tax law because these form a crucial foundation for the normative power of – and thus the support for – the tax system. In addition, his research interests include the role of the institutions of the European and international tax law, including the OECD and the United Nations. International collaboration is fundamental to the sustainability of our tax system, but the European and international tax rules must also be properly democratically guaranteed.

Cees has an extensive experience of lecturing in a variety of courses such transfer pricing, international and European tax law and international tax governance. He collaborates in the EUCOTAX Wintercourse project, that offers a platform to students from twelve different countries to study tax law from a comparative law perspective. Cees also has a successful track-record of managerial activities, including his role as Academic Director of both the bachelor and the master programs of ‘Tax economics’ at Tilburg University. He started his career at PwC in 2000 and has worked exclusively at Tilburg University since 2009.