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
- 1978 - 1983 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Master of Laws.
- 1984 - 1988 | Training Institute Finance | training
- 1984 - 1990 | Ministry of Finance, VAT Inspectorate Rotterdam | Tax inspector
- 1989 - 2024 | Mazars | Partner- shareholder and VAT / indirect tax partner
- 1990 - 1994 | Paardekooper & Hoffman | Senior manager
- 1994 - 2000 | Paardekooper & Hoffman | Partner
- 2024 - present | Forvis Mazars | Partner- shareholder and VAT / indirect tax partner
Additional positions
- Director VAT-assist B.V., Utrecht, a company engaged in tax representation (for VAT) of foreign companies liable for VAT in the Netherlands
- Chairman Mazars' International VAT & Customs Group
- Final editor and author Handbook Foundations & Associations, Reed Business
- Author/editor 'VAT Guide
- Member of NOB
- Member of VAT Forum, an organization of internationally operating VAT advisors
- Member of International VAT Association, organization of tax representatives
- Member of the Association of Real Estate Tax specialists
- Member of Forvis Mazars' Healthcare & Welfare sector, chairman of Forvis Mazars' Sports & Recreation sector