Błażej Kuźniacki, Ph.D
Nationality:
Born 14.06.1985
Poland
Address:
173 Chin Swee Road, 10-02, 169878
Singapore
Contact:
tel. 00 65 91307061
e-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 4.2017
Researcher at The Singapore Management University – Tax Academy Centre for
Excellence in Taxation
Since 5.2016
Of Counsel at law firm PATH Augustyniak, Hatylak and Partners LLP
11.2015-6.2016
PhD Research Fellow in Tax Law with completion grant, Department of Public and
International Law, University of Oslo
09.2012-10.2015
PhD Research Fellow in Tax Law, Department of Public and International Law,
University of Oslo
03 – 06.2015
Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law,
Vienna (WU), Austria
05.2013 – 08.2014
Tax lawyer, law office Marianski Group, Lodz
10. 2010 – 06.2012
Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre of Tax Documentation and Studies in Lodz,
Poland
Lecturer (in the frame of PhD practice), Tax law/Information Technology, Faculty of
Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University
10.2011 – 02.2012
Associate, law office BNWW, Corporate Department (Tax Team), Warsaw
03.2011 – 09.2011
Lawyer, law office CMS Cameron McKenna, Corporate Department (Tax Team),
Warsaw
12.2010 – 03.2011
Tax Assistant, KPMG, Tax International Department, Warsaw
10.2010
Trainee, KPMG, VAT Department, Warsaw
07 – 08.2009
Trainee, law office Grynhoff Wozny Malinski, Tax Department, Warsaw
05 – 06.2009
Trainee, law office AD-REM, Torun
05.2009
Carrying out a research project on the phenomenon of international tax avoidance at
the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam on behalf of the
Centre of Tax Documentation and Studies in Lodz
02 – 03.2009
Trainee, law office Kinder i Partnerzy, Torun
09.2006
Trainee, law office CONTRACT, Konin
10.2013 – 02.2014
EDUCATION
212-2016
2005 – 2010
Ph.D (Philosophiae Doctor) in law, University of Oslo.
MA in Law (First class), Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus
University with honors of the best student and the best graduate
2009 – 2010
Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Erasmus student exchange programme
2004 – 2009
MA in European Law (First class), Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus
Copernicus University
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
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The 2016 IFA President YIN Scientific Award for the publication of article “The Need to Avoid Double
Economic Taxation Triggered by CFC Rules under Tax Treaties, and the Way to Achieve it” at the
Intertax 2015, No. 12.
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The 2016 Norway Branch YIN Scientific Award for the publication “Strengthening CFC Rules in a
Compatible Way with EU Law under BEPS Action 3 in Light of the European Commission’s Proposal –
A Critical Evaluation”, in Danon, R. (ed.), Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS): Impact for European
and international tax policy, Zürich: Schulthess, 2016.
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The Scholarship for the most talented young scholars in Poland granted by the Foundation for Polish
Science (FNP)
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The best tax law article in tax law published in Norway in 2014: "EEA Exemption from Norwegian CFC
rules" at the "Skatterett" 2014, No. 3 (nomination for the price "The Article of the Year" of the
Universitetsforlagets)
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An honourable mention of the Jury of the IFA President YIN Scientific Award 2014 for the article “The
Service PE Concept in light of the Poland-Norway Income Tax Treaty (2009)” at the European Taxation
2014, No. 1.
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Around 60 publications in national (Polish and Norwegian) and international tax law magazines (the full
list of publication can be sent upon the request in the separate document “List of publication”)
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IFA National Reporter of the Polish Branch at the IFA Congress in Mumbai 2014 for the Subject II:
“Qualification of taxable entities and treaty protection”
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Title of the Faculty of Law and Administration Best Graduate, awarded in 2010 by Nicolaus Copernicus
University in Torun,
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Rector’s Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements in the Field of Tax Law and Popularization of
the Nicolaus Copernicus University’s Name, awarded in 2010,
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Title of the best student awarded in 2009 by the Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus
Copernicus University,
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Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship awarded for academic achievements for the
academic year 2009/2010,
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Participation in the GREIT Lisbon Summer Course on European Tax Law 2010,
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Participation in the CEE Vienna International Tax Law Summer School 2010,
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Second award won at the XIth National Science Conference organized by The Centre of Tax
Documentation and Studies in Lodz,
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Third place won in the XIIIth Local Oratory Contest, 2009, Torun
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Finalist of the Tax'n'You tax competition organized by KPMG Poland in 2010,
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Awarded Individual Supervision within the matrix of Individual Course of Studies: Prof dr hab. Marek
Kalinowski, Prof dr hab. Bogumił Brzeziński,
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Awarded scholarships for academic achievements in all subsequent academic years of Law Studies
and European Law Studies,

Vice-President of the Tax Law Students Club under the auspices of the Department of Public Finance
Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University,
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Organization of and participation in several scientific conferences (mainly in the field of tax law).
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LANGUAGES
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Polish – native speaker
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English – fluent (professional proficiency)
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Norwegian – very good
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Russian – intermediate
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Spain – beginer
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Portuguese – beginer
PERSONAL INTERESTS
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Surfing, flying, reading and writing poetry, kendo, theatre, literature, cognitive studies, music, traveling.
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