The Team

A chartered accountant based in Milan, Mr. Holzmiller is an expert in national and international taxation matters, and European Union tax law as applied in Italy. He is also an expert in corporate and accounting matters, including with regard to groups of companies and their organisation

• Director of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti di Milano [Milan Association of Chartered Accountants], delegate for dealings with E.U. institutions
• Creator and implementer of the Study Commission regarding Italian tax law to implement E.U. law (as part of the above Association)
• President of the Study Commission on the Harmonisation of European Taxation at the Italian Association of Chartered Accountants
• President of the “Commission to examine the compatibility of Italian taxation laws and practices with E.U. law” and current commission Delegate
• Member of the “Commission for behavioural rules and common interpretation on tax matters” at the Associazione Italiana Dottori Commercialisti (AIDC – Milano) [Italian Certified Accountants Association] and now “Expert” in the same Commission
• Author, together with his colleague, Alessandro Savorana, of a proposal of “EUROPEAN CONTRIBUTOR STATUTE” and reader of the proposal, in the appropriate session of the European Parliament in Brussels
• Lecturer for many years in the post-graduate masters course (2^nd level) at the Cattolica University in Milan on matters regarding taxation and terms and conditions of European tax law which prevail over Italian law
• Lecturer in the above matters at the Scuola di Alta Formazione [Upper Training School] as part of the Milan Association of Chartered Accountants and AIDC – Milan
• Creator and implementer of appropriate legal proceedings against the Italian State to break up the monopoly of Tax Advice Centres at the EUROPEAN UNION COURT OF JUSTICE concluding with full victory (E.U. Court of Justice Judgement of 30/03/2006, C – 451/03)
• Creator, organiser, lecturer and co-ordinator of “Open half-yearly training seminars aimed at Lombardy Tax Courts, and officers of the Agenzia delle Entrate and solicitors and accountants.”
• Creator, proposer and editor of a Framework Agreement between the President of the CTR-Milano [Milan Regional Tax Commission], Management of the CTR-Milano, the Milan Association of Tax Courts and AIDC – Milan, to institute a “Workshop on European Tax Law applied in Italy” as an Internal Body of the Lombardy Regional Tax Commission (CTR-Milano)
• Co-ordinator and then general delegate of this Workshop on E.U. Law, and Author of more legal papers on this matter

• Author of “Guida ai nuovi strumenti europei di tutela fiscale in Italia” [Guide to new European tax protection instruments in Italy] published by Giuffrè Editore in 1997
• Author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on national and international tax matters in specialist newspapers (“IlSole24Ore” and “Italia Oggi”)
• Author of articles and studies on “Italian international tax law” in the “Rivista dei Dottori Commercialisti” [Accountancy Magazine] – published by Giuffrè Editore (1990s and 2000s)
• Author and co-author of numerous recent papers and studies completed as part of the “E.U. Law Workshop” (A body of the Lombardy Regional Tax Commission) on the impact of international/European law on national law, published on the websites of the Agenzia delle Entrate [Italian Tax Agency], the Ministry of Economy and Finance and AIDC-Milano, now available on the latter’s website
• Author of editorial articles to accompany the above papers and studies published in “Emeroteca”, online journal aimed at officers of the Agenzia delle Entrate [Italian Tax Agency], the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Lower and Higher Italian Tax Courts (Tax Commissions and Supreme Court)

• Former President of the Company Law Commission of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti di Milano [Milan Association of Chartered Accountants]
• Lecturer at the Upper Training School for Accountants (SAF Milan)
• Lecturer in the preparation courses at the Training School for the State Exam at the Bicocca University in Milan
• Official Compiler of abstracts of judgements of the Lombardy Regional and Provincial Tax Commission
• Member of the AIDC Milano Study Centre – delegate for the Corporate Law area

• Published in the newspaper “IlSole24Ore” and “Quotidiano il Fisco” (online magazine from IlSole24Ore)
• “110 resolved case studies, published between 2005 and 2010″, 2011 (ODCMI – Diritto e Pratica delle Società [Company Law and Practice] / the first e-book by Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti ed Esperti contabili [Italian Association of Chartered Accountants]
• “Gruppi societari ed Holding” [Groups of companies and Holding companies], Il Sole24Ore, 2008
• “Diritto e Pratica delle Società, Casi Pratici” [Company Law and Practice, Case Studes], Il Sole24Ore, 2004
• “Il Nuovo Diritto societario” [New Company Law], Il Sole24Ore, 2003