Marc Bourgeois
Regent since 15 May 2023
Profession
Full professor (tax law and public finance law)
University of Liège
Studies - Qualifications
- Doctor of laws – University of Liège (2007)
Dissertation: Contribution à l’étude de la notion d’impôt en droit belge. Contours, singularité et utilité d’un concept juridique (Contribution to the study of the concept of tax under Belgian law. Outlines, particularities and usefulness of a legal concept) - Master of laws – University of Liège (1998)
- Bachelor of laws – University of Liège (1995)
Career
Since 01.01.2017 |
Full professor (tax law and public finance law) |
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2016 |
Professor |
01.10.2007 – 31.12.2012 |
Lecturer |
01.11.2007 – 31.12.2010 |
Consultant |
01.10.2004 – 30.09.2007 |
Teaching assistant |
01.10.2000 – 30.09.2004 |
Research fellow |
01.10.1998 – 30.09.2000 |
Part-time teaching assistant Occasional teaching activities |
Current mandates or functions
University of Liège
- Tax Institute (centre for interdisciplinary research in taxation and public finance)
President - Jury for the master’s degree in tax law (“general taxation” and “customs and excise” sections)
Director and chairperson - Interuniversity certificate in public finance from UCLouvain and the University of Liège
Co-head - University certificate in customs and excise duties
Academic director - Board of Studies for the bachelor of laws and master of laws
Chairperson
International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC International)
Member of two research committees
- Cooperative and social economy
- Public companies/services
International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC International)
Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Belgian Section
Estate Planning Skill Group (EPSG)
Since 10.2013 |
Member |
International Fiscal Association (IFA)
Since 2009 |
Member |
Customspliance (an international non-profit association)
Member |
“Marjolin” research group
Member
“Lus Commune” research group
Since 2009 |
Member |
Commission Royale Droit et Vie des Affaires (CRDVA)
Since 2008 |
Member |
PRD-ARES (development-oriented research project on the financing of universal health coverage in Bénin)
2022 – 2026 |
Northern coordinator |
Partnership between the University of Liège and the Protestant University in the Congo
Since 2022 |
Lecturer on tax law for a master’s degree programme in management science |
Various advisory activities for doctoral programmes and participation in thesis committees and/or PhD juries (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Sénégal, Bénin and Niger)
Editorial activities
- Founder and editor in chief of the Revue de fiscalité régionale et locale (R.F.R.L.), quarterly journal, published by Larcier, peer reviewed (since April 2012)
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Fiscale jurisprudentie-Jurisprudence fiscale (F.J.F.) (since 2009)
- Member of the editorial board of the Revue générale du contentieux fiscal (R.G.C.F.) (since 2009)
- Member of the editorial board of the Recueil général de l’enregistrement et du notariat (R.G.E.N.) (since 2009)
- Member of the editoral board of the Revue de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Liège (since 2012)
- Member of the editorial board of the weekly journal Fiscale Actualiteit (Kluwer) (since September 2021)
- Member of the editorial board of the weekly journal Actualités fiscales (Kluwer) (since September 2021)
- Member of the scientific board of the interdisciplinary journal of the IWEPS Dynamiques régionales (since 2013)
- Co-editor of the Tax Institute collection published by Larcier and Anthemis (since 2011) (with I. Richelle)
- Academic director of the French edition of Recueil de législation - Droit fiscal, Moncode.be, Knops publishing, two annual volumes
- Academic director of the annual publication Code La Charte 5 – Droit fiscal (with I. Richelle)
- Academic director of the annual publication Codes La Charte 2A et 2B de droit constitutionnel et de droit administratif (with C. Behrendt, P. Lewalle, M. Pâques and JC Scholsem)
Past mandates or functions
PRD-ARES (development-oriented research project on the financing of universal health coverage in Sénégal)
2016 – 2022 |
Northern coordinator |
SmartMove (project by the Brussels government)
07.2021 – 10.2021 |
Provision of an expert opinion to the Council of State (Legislation Division) on three draft ordinances (69.687/VR - 69.689/VR - 69.691/VR) issued by the Brussels government further to the so-called SmartMove project, relating to automobile taxation |
Conseil de la Fiscalité et des Finances de Wallonie
2013 – 2023 |
Member |
2013 – 2017 |
Vice-chairperson |
Walloon Parliament
2021 – 2022 |
Expert for the preparation of a real estate tax reform in the Walloon Region |
Expert group, headed by Professor Mark Delanote, tasked with preparing a vision statement on the future federal tax reform
2021 – 2022 |
Member |
Faculty of Law, University of Hasselt
2022 |
Member of the review committee for the support of self-assessment |
EU VAT Forum
Until 2021 |
Member |
FPS Public Health, Safety of the Food Chain and the Environment
01.2017 – 05.2019 |
Expert for the Climate Change Department (“National Carbon Pricing Debate”) |
Higher Institute of Commerce of Kinshasha
2012 – 2019 |
Lecturer in tax law |
House Special Committee on International Tax Fraud/the Panama Papers
05.2016 – 01.2018 |
Standing expert |
Expert group responsible for preparing a tax reform for Brussels on the greening of automobile taxation
2018 |
Member |
Expert group responsible for preparing the Brussels tax reform
2016 – 2017 |
Member |
European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP)
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2016 |
Member (Belgian representative on the Scientific Committee) |
KUL – VUB – University of Antwerp
2015 |
Member of the review committee for several specialised master’s degrees, chaired by Mr Ivan Verougstraete |
Parliament of the French Community
Expert on the financing of culture and the future of the federal tax shelter
House of Representatives of the Brussels Parliament and the Walloon Parliament
Various hearings
University of Bologna (tax law department)
2002 – 2003 |
Researcher in residence (14 months) |
Editorial activities
2009 – 2014 |
Co-editor of the Manuel de planification patrimoniale, published by Larcier (with YH Leleu and JF Taymans, co-editors) |