IFA Branch Meetings
The Tax Group regularly hosts meetings of the International Fiscal Association (Australian branch) in Melbourne, at which presentations are given by international tax scholars and professionals.
- On 26 October 2009, Professor Brian Arnold from Goodmans LLP in Toronto presented a seminar on the topic "Treaty Interpretation". For a copy of his powerpoint slides, click here.
- On 21 October 2009, the Hon. Justice Michelle Gordon of the Federal Court of Australia presented a seminar on the IFA Tax Jurists Conference held recently. For further details please click here.
- On 3 June 2009, Mr Tony Frost of Greenwoods and Freehills spoke on the topic 'Foreign Exchange Issues in International Taxation'. For further details please click here.
- The Melbourne Branch of the International Fiscal Association hosted their first IFA seminar of 2009, given by Mr Jock McCormack on Monday 30 March 2009. Jock is the Australian Reporter to the IFA Congress 2009, and he spoke on the topic of permanent establishments which is the subject of his report. For a copy of his paper, click here.
- On 25 September 2008, Mr Casey Plunkett, Partner at Chapman Tripp in New Zealand, gave a presentation on "Recent New Zealand International Tax Reforms". For a copy of his powerpoint slides, click here.
- On 12 June 2008, Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah, Director of the International Tax LLM Program at the University of Michigan Law School gave a presentation on "Tax Competition, Tax Arbitrage and the International Tax Regime". For a copy of his paper, click here.
- On 24 July 2007, Dr H David Rosenbloom, Distinguished Professor, New York University, spoke at a lunchtime meeting co-hosted by the Victorian Tax Bar on "Transfer pricing/cost sharing and US practice". For more information, click here.
- On 12 June 2007, Professor Lee Burns of the University of Sydney gave a presentation on "Harmonisation of the Anti-deferral Regimes and the Board of Taxation Discussion Paper." Click here for a copy of Professor Burns' paper.
- On 22 May 2007, Professor Malcolm Gammie QC spoke on "A UK perspective on international tax before the ECJ- Process and Outcomes" at an IFA meeting jointly hosted by the Tax Bar Association. Download Professor Gammie's powerpoint slides here. Professor Gammie also addressed an IFA branch meeting in Sydney on 24 May 2007, on the topic "Investment in Land in the UK and in UK REITs". For a copy of those slides, click here.
- In September 2006, Assistant Commissioner (International Relations) at the ATO, Graham Whyte, addressed the branch meeting on Australia's new international tax treaties on exchange of information with tax havens.
- In November 2006, Professor Tim Edgar from the University of Western Ontario , Canada, presented on the Canadian general tax anti-avoidance rule and recent Canadian Supreme Court decisions.
- In August 2005, Professor David Rosenbloom (New York University) spoke about the US view of transfer pricing.
- In March 2005, Professor Kees van Raad of Leuven University, Belgium, presented on the topic "Is the European Court of Justice destroying international income tax systems in Europe?"
- In October 2004, a speech on tax treaties and tax avoidance was given by Professor Brian Arnold, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
- In August 2004, Dan Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University, delivered a presentation on tax arbitrage.