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

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.

Decisions on acceptances can be expected by early May 2026.

Submissions

Please submit an abstract by 2 April 2026. All abstracts must be submitted online, using th abstract submission form. The abstracts can be attached to the submission form and should be no longer than 300 words to be considered. No papers will be accepted after the deadline of 2 April 2026.

The form will also ask for details of the lead presenter (full name, affiliation, career stage, and e-mail address) in the submission, and a space to provide details of any additional presenters. We will also ask whether or not you plan to attend in-person or online. 

This year, we are introducing the Early Career Best Full Paper Award to recognise outstanding work by emerging scholars. To be considered, applicants must tick the designated box on the submission form and submit an original, unpublished full paper based on their accepted abstract (maximum 8,000 words, including the abstract, appendices, and references) by 30 July 2026 to k.matikonis@ucd.ie.

Eligibility is limited to PhD students and researchers with fewer than eight years of relevant post-PhD experience as of 30 July 2026. Career breaks and similar interruptions do not count toward this eight-year limit.