Susi Baerentzen is a tax law & human rights researcher from Denmark. She is lecturing at Vienna & Copenhagen Universities, holds a PhD in International Tax Law and Economics.

Susi recently published her book “The Effectiveness of General Anti-Avoidance Rules”. She has worked for 5 years for one of the Big4 audit firms and is a Nordic Tax Manager at a large multinational company.

In the podcast we spoke about:

* Extreme triathlon;

* Middle East;

* Why Susi wanted to be an air-force pilot;

* Why she switched from Big4 to academic work & inhouse;

* Past, present and future of being an inhouse;

* Why the AI and Legal/tax Tech look like the Emperor’s New Clothes;

* What question ChatGPT selected for Susi for the Tax Stories podcast;

* Her book on GAAR;

* On economic substance (vs. control) and the underlying principles & the future of holding companies and holding regimes in traditional holding jurisdictions; she thinks that the time of buying substance is over;

* Danish beneficial ownership cases and the massive withholding tax fraud case there & the future of withholding taxes, incl. FASTER directive;

* Pillar 2 – I can jump out of a plane and flap my wings, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to fly;

* That TP is measuring an illusion.

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