Dr Bernard Schneider, BA, JD, LLM (Taxation), MIA, PhD
Reader in International Tax Law
Email: s.b.schneider@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Profile
Dr Bernard Schneider is Reader in International and Comparative Tax Law, Director of Education and Academic Director of theInstitute of Tax Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He teaches international and comparative, US and Chinese taxation, with a particular focus on the taxation of individuals, tax administration and procedure and the politics of taxation.
Dr Schneider’s main research interests are in the areas of international and comparative tax law, the taxation of individuals, taxation in emerging and developing countries, tax administration and procedure and the international relations dimension of international and cross-border taxation. He wrote his PhD thesis on the development of the Chinese income tax system.
Dr Schneider graduated from the New York University School of Law with a JD and an LLM in Taxation, and he holds an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Certificate in Chinese Studies from Columbia University's East Asian Institute. He studied Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center of the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Capital Normal University in Beijing and Columbia University.
Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Schneider practised in New York, China and the United Kingdom, primarily in the areas of international and US taxation.
Postgraduate Teaching
- SOLM118 Principles of Taxation
- SOLM121 Tax System Design and Policy in Emerging and Developing Economies
- SOLM122 Taxation of Individuals
- SOLM123 US International Taxation
- SOLM124 UK Tax Law
- SOLM286 Tax Administration and Procedure
- SOLM029 Chinese Business Law
- SOLM119 International Tax Law
- SOLM120 International Tax Law in Practice
- SOLM346 Art, Crime and Regulation
Research
Research Interests:
Key research interests include:
- International and comparative tax law
- Tax administration and procedure
- Tax policy and the politics of taxation
- Taxation of individuals
- Taxation in emerging and developing countries
- US taxation
- Chinese taxation
- Immigration and nationality law
Publications
- ‘The end of taxation without end: A new tax regime for US expatriates’, (2012) 32 Virginia Tax Review 1
Supervision
Dr Schneider welcomes proposals for PhD supervision in the areas of tax policy, tax administration, taxation in emerging and developing countries and the taxation of individuals.
PhD Students
- Martin John Harty
- Yavuz Selim Sönmez
- Vasiliki Koukoulioti
- Yanzhe Li
Public Engagement
- Academic Director, Institute of Tax Law.
- Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin.
- Member, ADIT Examination Sub-Committee.
- Member, International Fiscal Association UK Branch Committee.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the BRICS Countries at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (2014-15).
Conferences and Panels (Selected)
- UK National Reporter, European Association of Tax Law Professors Congress 2024 on Taxation and Inequalities, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 6-8 June 2024.
- Chaired panel at the Turing Network Workshop on AI in Tax, Audit and Fintech, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, 22-23 June 2023.
- Presented ‘Indirect Taxation in the United States and Canada’ at the Seminar on New Trends in the Common Law: Taxation, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 11 October 2022.
- Presented ‘Caught Between Two Sovereigns: The International Taxation of Cross-Border Individuals’ at the Workshop on Fairness in International Taxation, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, 24 June 2022.
Quoted In (Selected)
- William Hoke, 'China's "Social Credit" Rating System Could Harm Foreign Firms' (30 September 2019) 95 Tax Notes International 1411
- William Hoke, 'Government Accelerates Plan to Fold Business Tax Into VAT Regime' (1 February 2016) 81 Tax Notes International Notes 404
- William Hoke, 'Local Governments to Honor Most Tax Incentive Deals' (18 May 2015) 78 Tax Notes International 607
- Stephanie Soong Johnston, 'Accuracy of NY Times Story on Chinese Taxation Disputed' (26 January 2015) 77 Tax Notes International 299