The Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance is an interdisciplinary research center in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
. The Institute is part of the
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...
, Germany’s foremost provider of basic research in science and humanities, funded largely from public resources.
History
The Senate of the
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...
has founded the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich as of
1 January 2011. It consists of the Department of Public Economics, headed by
Kai A. Konrad, and the Department of Business and Tax Law, headed by Wolfgang Schön.
The Institute was founded by spinning-off the tax departments of the former
, which was located at the same place. Together with the
and the
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law
The Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law () was a research institute devoted to the field of foreign and international social law. It was one of the research institutes of the Max Planck Society. It merged with the Munich C ...
, the Institute founded the Munich Max Planck Campus for Legal and Economic Research.
About 50 lawyers and economists, from Germany and abroad, work at the Institute. They do basic research on taxation but also in associated fields of research. The Institute’s work breeds scientific journals, articles and monographs, the Institute is involved in academic conferences, lectures and cooperation with other academic institutions and it also publishes comments on matters of fiscal policy and advises legislatures on the national as well as on the international level. The Institute’s mission is not limited to producing internationally visible research output in the respective disciplines but it also encompasses the advancement of interdisciplinary exchange. The Institute hosts visiting scholars and visiting researchers from all over the world and supports the research of PhD-students and post-docs by granting generous scholarships.
Max Planck Law
The institute is part of the research network
Max Planck Law
Max Planck Law is a research network connecting nine Max Planck Institutes in Germany engaged in legal research. It is formally classified as a Graduate Center of the Max Planck Society and has over 400 PhD students and postdoc researchers.
The Ma ...
.
Notable people
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Birke Häcker
Birke Häcker (born 1977) is a German legal scholar. Since January 2023 she has been Professor for Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn and Director of the Institute for International Private Law and Comparative Law ...
, senior research fellow (2011–2016)
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Kai A. Konrad, Director since January 2011
References
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Tax Law and Public Finance
Research institutes in Munich
Tax law
Tax organizations