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TRN26 – London

Amy Lawton — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:22:46 +0000

Dates: 7-9 September 2026

Location: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

Conference information

The TRN 2026 conference will be held in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus, on 7-9 September 2026. It will be mainly an in-person conference with some, but limited, virtual provision for those who are unable to travel to London.

As usual, the first two days, 7 and 8 September, will be research focused, while the last day, 9 September, will be education focused.

Authors are invited to submit papers that advance knowledge in tax research or education.

There will be concurrent sessions over the conference to accommodate the papers submitted. The virtual sessions will be conducted via Microsoft Teams with links to be provided prior to the conference.

The conference will offer a limited number of conference fee scholarships and travel bursaries for PhD students and Early Career Research/Teaching colleagues. Further details will be available once registration opens.

Conference Dinner

The drinks reception and conference dinner will take place on the evening of Monday 7 September at a venue near the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus.

Call for papers

The call for papers will be available from early 2026 with a deadline in Spring 2026.

There is no specific theme for this conference. We therefore welcome any research or education-focused tax papers. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary work, and abstracts submitted by early career researchers or teachers or individuals from under-represented groups.

New blog post: Labouring in Vain

Amna — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:14:03 +0000

Dr Guy Mulley examines the long standing confusion around employment status and questions the assumption that tax law and labour law should be aligned. Drawing on recent case law, policy developments, and the Employment Rights Act, he argues that the persistent conflation of the two regimes has contributed to uncertainty, delay, and conceptual inconsistency, and suggests that moving away from this alignment may offer a clearer path forward.

New book: Crossing Borders, Sharing Burdens

Amy Lawton — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:12:04 +0000

Lotta Björklund Larsen and Lynne Oats announce the publication of their new – open access – book, ‘Crossing Borders, Sharing Burdens. Rethinking Taxation and Migration as Fiscal Belonging’. Their book addresses critical questions surrounding attitudes to tax and tax compliance through the lens of ‘fiscal belonging’. Through this concept they explore the lived experience of immigrants to the UK, and how feelings of belonging, exclusion, reciprocity, and obligation shape their encounters with the tax system. The book illuminates the many different facets of fiscal belonging, including the right to work and access to employment, as well as histories of colonialism and the economic history of different communities on a national scale. By foregrounding personal narratives and the complexity of social worlds, this bookargues for more methodologically diverse and inclusive approaches to understanding why people do, or do not, pay tax. Thus, the book also demonstrates the value of qualitative approaches to tax research.

The book is available open access (free) to download online.

New blog post: Critical Perspectives on Taxation: Breaking Myths and Broadening Horizons

Amna — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:00:04 +0000

Prof Lynne Oats, Prof Carla Edgley and Prof Emer Mulligan examine the state of critical tax scholarship today. Drawing on the idea of heterophony, they reflect on how diverse critical voices can challenge dominant tax narratives and open new directions for research.

New blog post: Under Tax Pressure: Can Fairness and Trust Keep Taxpayers Compliant After the COVID-19 Crisis?

Amna — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:36:36 +0000

Dr Rida Belahouaoui, Professor and Researcher at Cadi Ayyad University (Morocco) explores whether fairness and trust can support taxpayer compliance under tax pressure in the period following the COVID-19 crisis.

New blog post: Contract Interpretation in Transfer Pricing: Lessons from Canada

Anne Fairpo — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:24:46 +0000

Dr. Amir Pichhadze, Research Assistant at York University (Canada) writes on contract Interpretation in Transfer Pricing: Lessons from Canada

New blog post: Feeling Tax: How Emotions Shape Compliance Through the Lens of the MINDSPACE Framework

Anne Fairpo — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:32:32 +0000

Dr Amna Tariq Shah-Kemp writes on research into tax compliance behaviour in Australia and Pakistan to explore how the affect heuristic plays out in practice.

TRN25 – Nottingham

Andy Lymer — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:22:49 +0000

BOOKINGS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW OPEN! – SEE HERE FOR DETAILS

Dates: 8–10 September 2025

Location: Nottingham University Business School

Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB

Conference information

The TRN 2025 conference will be held in the Business School South Building at the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus on 8-10 September 2025. It will be mainly an in-person conference with some, but limited, virtual provision for those who are unable to travel to Nottingham.

As usual, the first two days will be research focused, while the Tax Education Day will run on 10 September.

Both research and teaching focused papers are welcomed in this call for papers.

The conference will offer a limited number of fee scholarships and travel bursaries for PhD students and Early Career Research/Teaching colleagues. We will also hope to have limited funding for supporting childcare costs. Further details will be available once registration opens.

Conference Dinner

The drinks reception and conference dinner will take place on the evening of Monday 8 September at a venue also on the Jubilee Campus.

Call for papers

The call for papers is now passed for this event

Booking

Bookings for this event ARE NOW OPEN – please see full details and book your place here

Accommodation

There is limited conference accommodation available on campus. This accommodation is bookable on a first come first served basis.

Southwell Hall (student hall of residence)

The cut off point for booking accommodation in Southwell Hall will be 18 August 2025.

Only 40 (en suite) rooms are available, so booking is on a first come, first served basis. The cost is £54 per night, inclusive of VAT and breakfast.

Please note that booking may require setting up an account with Nottingham Venues (the formal conference organising entity at Nottingham) and then following through the process advised. It can take a little while – and please make a note of the code TAXCONF2025 before booking as you may need to enter it separately later.

Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre (JCC)

Click The Jubilee Hotel (on the ‘book directly’ option). On the drop-down box, add the code and click apply and all the dates and rates will appear for to book. Code: TaxRes26. Please enter this code as a ‘Group’ code, or it won’t work. Rooms (inclusive of VAT and breakfast) cost £95 per night.

The cutoff date to book accommodation in the JCC is 3 August 2025.

Further details on this event will be available on the TRN website in due course at: https://taxresearch.network

New blog post: employment status

Anne Fairpo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Justine Riccomini of ICAS writes on employment status

New event added – The inaugural conference of the Social Policy Association’s Tax and Social Policy Group – Wealth, inequality, tax and social policy (Jan 16th 2025)

Andy Lymer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:24:00 +0000

See full details on this FREE event for all and register to attend at –

see https://taxresearch.network/event/social-policy-associations-tax-and-social-policy-group-inaugural-conference-wealth-inequality-tax-and-social-policy/