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.

2013

On 22 April 2013 IFA Australia (Melbourne) hosted a panel event presented by Mr Terry Murphy SC, Mr Piotr Klank and Dr Michael Littlewood on the topic "The Evolution of Tax Havens, Exchange of Information and Tax Treaties. For further information please click here to download the seminar flyer. To view Dr Michael Littlewood's slides, please click here. To download Terry Murphy SC and Piotr Klank's paper please click here. The article by Professor Miranda Stewart, Transnational Tax Information Exchange Networks: Steps towards a Globalized, Legitimate Tax Administration, June 2012, Vol 4, Issue 2, World Tax Journal, P152 can be viewed here.
On 26 March 2013 IFA Australia (Melbourne) hosted a seminar given by Professor Michael Tumpel from the University of Linz (Austria) on "European Financial Transaction Tax: How are Australian Financial Institutions Affected". For further information please click here to download the seminar flyer. For a copy of the slides please click here.

2012

On 30 July 2012 Professor Yariv Brauner presented a seminar on "Transfer pricing and permanent establishment - Recent US Cases and Developments". For a copy of the powerpoint slides please click here.
On 6 June 2012, IFA Australia (Melbourne) hosted a seminar at KPMG given by Professor Alan Schenk on "Proposals in a Presidential Election Year for a Consumption-Based U.S. Tax System: Will the U.S. become a Tax Haven Country?". For further information please click here to download the seminar flyer.
On 12 April 2012, IFA Australia (Melbourne) hosted a seminar given by Dr Peter Harris from the University of Cambridge on "The Future of Controlled Foreign Corporation Rules". For further information please click here to download the seminar flyer. For a copy of the powerpoint slides please click here.

2011

On 29 November 2011, Dr Niv Tadmore and Mr Simon Bowden from Clayton Utz in Melbourne, presented a seminar on "Practical Issues to Eliminate Double Taxation of Business Income".
On 20 October 2011, a panel discussion on "Tax Treaties" was held at the Melbourne Law School. This event is part of the Young IFA Network, an initiative of the International Fiscal Association aimed at increasing the participation of younger (under 40) professionals in international tax. This is the first Young IFA Network event in Australia. The panel members were: Sunita Jogarajan - Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, Paul Heginbothom - Policy Analyst, Department of Treasury, Chloe Burnett - Barrister, NSW Bar. For a copy of the powerpoint slides, click here. To download Sunita Jogarajan's paper, click here.
On 31 August 2011, Associate Professor Wei Cui from China University of Political Science and Law presented a seminar on "Chinese International Tax and Treaty Policy. For further information please click here. For a copy of the powerpoint slides, click here.
On 27 July 2011, Associate Professor Mike Kobetsky from the Melbourne Law School presented a seminar on "Transfer Pricing - SNF case". For a copy of the powerpoint slides, click here.
On 5 April 2011, Neil Motteram and Lyn Redman from the Australian Treasury presented a seminar on "Australian Tax Treaty Policy and Developments". For a copy of the powerpoint slides, click here.
On 24 February 2011, Professor Brian Arnold from the Canadian Tax Foundation, presented a seminar on “Cleaning Up the Mess: The Taxation of Services under Tax Treaties”. For a copy of his powerpoint slides, click here.

2010

On 12 August 2010, a panel discussion was held to discuss the topic "Australia's Tax Information Exchange Treaties, progress and problems: Where to now? To view the seminar flyer, please click here.
On 4 August 2010, Professor Stafford Smiley of Georgetown Law Centre, Washington DC will present a seminar on "US International Tax Developments: Issues of cross-border tax enforcement and information exchange". To view the seminar flyer, please click here.
On 22 April 2010, the Hon. Justice Ian Vitaly Gzell of the Supreme Court of New South Wales presented a seminar held at KPMG on the topic "Recent Decisions in relation to Trusts and Administration". For a copy of his paper, click here.
On 23 March 2010, Professor Kees van Raad from University of Leiden, Netherlands spoke on the topic "Dual Resident Companies under Tax Treaties". For a copy of his powerpoint slides, click here.
On 8 February 2010, Professor Pasquale Pistone from Vienna University of Economics and Business presented a seminar on the topic "Arbitration in international tax disputes". For further details please click here.

2009

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.

2008

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.

2007

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 further details.
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.

2006

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.

2005

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?"

2004

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.