Leif Gäverth

Born 1958
Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court since 2015

Degree of Master of Laws (LL.M) from Uppsala University, 1984
Degree of Licentiate of Laws (jur.lic.) from Uppsala University, 1994
Doctor of Laws Degree (LL.D) from Uppsala University, 1999
Associate Judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm, 1993
Head of the Legal Unit at the Regional Tax Authority in Västmanland County, 1993-1997
Head of the Corporate Tax Unit at the Swedish National Tax Board, 1997-2000
Head of Legal Unit 2 at the Swedish National Tax Board, 2000-2002
Judge of Appeal and Senior Judge of Division at the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm, 2002-2006
Chief Judge at Västmanland County Administrative Court, 2006-2010
Chief Judge at the Administrative Court in Uppsala, 2010-2015

Public appointments

Inquiry Secretary concerning the Transmission of HIV Through the Drug, Preconativ, 1993
Assistant to the Chancellor of Justice in the 1994 Investigation of the Swedish Medical Products Agency
Expert of the Inquiry to Review Electronic Communications, 2005-2006
Inquiry Chair, Tax Incentives Inquiry, 2008-2009
Alternate to the Chair of the Regional Ethical Review Board in Uppsala regarding the ethical review of medical research, 2004-2013
Member of the Swedish Council for Advance Tax Rulings, 2005-2015

Other appointments

Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator for financial law at Uppsala University, 1990-1992.
Course Coordinator at the Judicial Training Academy, 2004-present

Publications, etc.

Publications on tax law: Stödbrev. Borgensliknande handlingar utställda företrädesvis för svagt kapitaliserade bolag [Letters of Comfort: Guarantor-like Documents Issued Especially for Weakly Capitalized Companies] (licentiate thesis, 1994); Skatteplanering och kapitaliseringsfrågor: En skatterättslig studie av olika metoder att ingripa mot internationell skatteplanering med under- respektive överkapitaliserade bolag [Tax Planning and Capitalisation Issues: A Tax Law-based Study of Various Methods of Challenging International Tax Planning Schemes Involving Under- and Overcapitalised Companies] (doctoral dissertation, 1999); as well as a number of articles in Skattenytt, Svensk Skattetidning and various anthologies

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Leif Gäverth
Photo by Micke Lundström
Updated
2020-11-09