Rate My Professor Mark Delanote

Mark Delanote serves as an associate professor at the Tax Law Institute within the Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law at Ghent University's Faculty of Law and Criminology. He earned his degree in law from KU Leuven in 2001, followed by additional certificates in tax law from the University of Brussels in 2002, company law from KU Leuven in 2002, and social law from the University of Brussels in 2006. In 2010, he completed his PhD in law at KU Leuven with a dissertation focused on tax collection law. Delanote's teaching portfolio centers on tax procedures, registration taxes, and inheritance taxes, including courses such as Basic Principles of Taxation and Tax Procedure at the master's level.

His research expertise spans constitutional law, human rights law, procedural law, and tax law. Delanote has produced over 90 publications documented in the Ghent University Research Explorer. Notable books include Invordering federale fiscale schulden (2025 and 2020 editions), De erfbelasting (2022 and 2020), Internationale fiscale procedure (2023, co-authored with Lars Vanneste), De fiscale procedure (2016), and Fiscaal recht - basisbegrippen (2016). Recent journal articles feature Hof van Justitie bevestigt de strijd tegen agressieve fiscale planning (2026, co-authored with Felix Desmyttere) in SEW, Tijdschrift voor Europees en Economisch Recht; De (relatief) grote fiscale hervorming is er dan toch! (2025) in Algemeen Fiscaal Tijdschrift; Kroniek Vlaamse erfbelasting 2024 (2025, co-authored with Elisabeth Janssens) in Tijdschrift voor Notarissen; and Vruchtgebruik en registratierechten (2025) in Algemeen Fiscaal Tijdschrift. Beyond academia, he has contributed to parliamentary committees on the Panama Papers and Kazakhgate, and has served as a member of the High Council of Finance since November 2017.