Bert Laman Partner

Specific client experience

• Extensive experience as a VAT advisor in the (inter)national field, including real estate transactions, cross-border trade and VAT issues in the non-profit sector.
• Supervising bookkeeping investigations initiated by the Tax Authorities, conducting negotiations with the Tax Authorities and conducting appeal proceedings in court.
• Due diligence investigations and VAT audits of clients.
• International advice to colleagues and foreign clients.

Education and work experience

• 1983 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dutch law.
• 1987 | Training Institute Finance in The Hague | Training as a sales tax inspector with the tax authorities.
• 1984 - 1989 | Ministry of Finance or the Tax Authorities | sales tax inspector.
• 1989 - present | Mazars | employee VAT department.

Additional functions

• Director VAT-assist B.V., Utrecht, a company engaged in tax representation (for VAT) of foreign companies liable for VAT in the Netherlands.
• Chairman of Mazars' International VAT & Customs Group.
• Final editor and author Handbook Foundations & Associations, Reed Business.
• Author/editor of 'VAT Guide'.
• Member of NOB.
• Member of VAT Forum, an organization of internationally operating VAT advisors.
• Member International VAT Association, organization of tax representatives.
• Member of the Association of Real Estate Tax Professionals.
• Member of Mazars' Health & Welfare sector, chairman of Mazars' Sports & Recreation sector.