ABOUT US

Rita Calçada Pires is Associate Professor with Aggregation and President of the Pedagogical Council at NOVA School of Law. Holds a PhD in International Tax Law, with the thesis on Direct Taxation of Corporate Income generated by Electronic Commerce (2009).

Since 2019, she has been the coordinator of the 1st cycle. Rita teaches Public Finances Law and Tax Law at under graduation, and Corporate Tax Law and International Tax Law at the master’s in law and management.

The NOVA Tax Research Lab, affectionately nicknamed NOVA Tax Lab, is born aiming to generate value in tax knowledge. It aspires to become an example of how taxation can and should be researched. We do not anchore ourselves to the national domain, we assume a global approach and offer our lenses to the analysis and reflection about what exists and what can and should exist in the universe of taxation. We are not afraid of trial and error, as we are not troubled with attempting creation of alternative solutions for taxation. Even if they seem futuristic, naïve or impracticable. We follow Victor Hugo’s belief, “There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.”

We begin with small, but consistent steps. We will not do more than what the accuracy and the objectivity of what creates value will allow us to do. This is the only way to perceive our research. In all this process we wish to communicate, with academia, with society with political and economic agents. We desire creating networks of knowledge and reflection to better and more actively propose valid and alternative paths to think, interpret and apply Tax Law.

And so, we begin.

And so, here we are,