Any cancellation/modification should be sent in writing to the registration team. Reimbursements will be processed one month after the Congress. Please note that credit card companies do not return the credit card fees in case of reimbursement.
Cancellation policies for registration, social events, and tours:
- Cancellations received before 1 July 2025 will be entitled to a refund of the amount paid except 50 EUR as management fee.
- Cancellations received on/from 1 July 2025 will not be entitled to a refund.
Cancellation policies for accommodation and reduction of nights:
- Please note that hotels will not accept any changes directly.
- Cancellations received before 1 July 2025 will be entitled to a refund of the amount paid except 50 EUR as management fee per room. There will be no penalty for the reduction in the number of nights.
- Cancellations received before 1 September 2025 will be entitled to a refund of the amount paid except 1 night per room. There will be no penalty for the reduction in the number of nights.
- Cancellations received on/from 1 September 2025 will not be entitled to a refund. Reduction of nights are not refundable.
- In case of a no-show the Technical Secretariat is legally authorized to charge the entire stay as initially booked.
Name changes
Can be made at no additional cost if requested in writing to the registration team.
Liability/Insurance
All reasonable endeavours will be made to hold the 77th IFA 2025 Lisbon Congress as programmed. However, the Organisation (IFA and Bco Congresos) has the right, for any reason beyond its control, to modify or cancel without prior notice, scientific sessions, social events or any of the arrangements, timetables, plans or other items of the Congress. The Organisation will not assume indemnities or reimbursement of fees/deposits requested by participants in case of cancellation of the whole or part of the Congress at any point in time due to unforeseen or force majeure circumstances, such as a hurricane, flooding, earthquake, volcanic eruption, strike, riot, war, terrorism, pandemics, epidemics, etc. Neither the Organisation nor its officers, employees, representatives, or agents will be responsible for any loss, damage, expenditure, accident, harm or inconvenience caused to participants and their belongings, during or because of their participation in the Congress. Participants are advised to consider procuring their insurance against any such occurrences.
Processing of personal data
All the information required in the registration form must be provided to participate in the Congress. Any information processed in/with regards to the Congress App is used to enhance your Conference experience. Moreover, photographers and videographers will be present at the Congress to capture footage for (potential) promotional materials on behalf of the Internationale Vereniging voor Belastingrecht/International Fiscal Association and IFA events and publications B.V. (collectively: IFA). This means that you may appear in Congress photos or videos to be published on the website, newsletters, and social media accounts of IFA during or after the Congress.
All personal data provided in the registration form, Congress App, as well as Congress footage (photos/video) will be processed with the purpose to make all the necessary arrangements to organize, manage and host the Congress (including hotel reservations, invoicing, issuance of certificates of attendance), track participation in the Congress, market and communicate about the Congress and future events organized by IFA, manage and provide access to the Congress App, design the scientific content of the Congress, comply with competent authority or other statutory obligations, and create a Congress content database for IFA members, accessible via the secured section of IFA’s website.
IFA is the data controller of the processing of your personal data, resident at Beursplein 37, P.O. Box 30215; 3001 DE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Where you have given your consent to be included in the participant list to be shared with the sponsors, the respective sponsor and IFA will act as joint data controllers for such processing. Where the sponsor thereafter processes your personal data to invite you for the scientific and social events around the Congress, it shall process your personal data as an independent controller for its own purposes. Your personal data will be deleted by the sponsor ultimately on 31 October 2025. With regards to your usage of the Congress App, IFA qualifies as a joint data controller. For the specific data processed and how Conference Compass handles your personal data we kindly refer to the privacy statement of Conference Compass.
Your personal data will be processed by IFA, including by its employees and members of its bodies and committees, and other persons engaged by IFA on a need-to-know basis. In particular, IFA uses the services of Professional Congress Organizer BCO CONGRESS, S.L., who will process your personal data on IFA’s behalf. In addition, your data may be processed for some or all of the aforementioned purposes by the local organizing committee of the Congress (local IFA Branch), Chairs, Secretaries and/or panel members of the Congress sessions, VIAGENS ABREU SA and Abreu Events, Unipessoal, Lda, M. Davis & Associates Consulting Limited and Conference Compass B.V..
As participant, you may withdraw your consent and exercise your rights of access, rectification, removal, and objection to the mentioned controller in the above-mentioned postal address or via email info@ifa.nl. If you have a concern about the way IFA has handled your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
Contact
For questions on registrations and accommodation, please contact the registration team, Bco Congresos, at ifa2025lisbon@bcocongresos.com.
For questions on the social events, accompanying persons programme, and touring, please contact Abreu Events at helder.carvalho@abreu.pt.
