Juliane Kokott is Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg. Pasquale Pistone is Academic Chairman of IBFD, the Netherlands, and Professor at WU Vienna, Austria, and the University of Salerno, Italy.
This is an excellent book which makes a real contribution to this developing area of international tax law. It is essential reading for scholars in this field but also practitioners and tax authorities. If in the future taxpayers' rights are taken more seriously by policymakers, the authors' suggestions for a global minimum standard of protection and the proposed International Charter of Taxpayers' Rights are likely to be the starting point for reform. -- Christiana HJI Panayi * British Tax Review *