Peter A Allard School of Law

Tax Law and Policy Workshop with Professor David Duff and Craig Elliffe

Event Description

Allard Law Professor David Duff has organized a number of tax law and policy workshops for JD and LLM Taxation students at Allard Law. Join Professor David Duff and tax scholar Professor Craig Elliffe for lunch and a discussion on tax law and policy. Professor Elliffe is a tax scholar at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He will present a paper on comparative general anti-avoidance rules in tax law.

Space is limited to 24 students. Lunch will be provided at these workshops. Please arrive early to secure your seat. If you have any questions, please email Professor Duff at duff@allard.ubc.ca.

Legal Perspectives on the Enactment and Interpretation of General Anti-Avoidance Tax Laws: Statutory Interpretation on the Road Less Travelled By. - Paper (PDF)

The General Anti-Avoidance Tax Law: Statutory Interpretation on the Road Less Travelled By - Presentation Slides (PDF)

Speakers

Craig Elliffe

Craig Elliffe is a Professor specialising in taxation in the Law Faculty at the University of Auckland. Craig was appointed to a chair in 2008 after 14 years as a tax partner at KPMG and 9 years as a tax partner at Chapman Tripp. Craig’s research areas are in the field of international tax, corporate tax and tax avoidance.

He is the author of International and Cross-Border Taxation in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters and now in its third edition), which was awarded the JF Northey best law book award in 2015, and Dividend Imputation: Practice and Procedure (Lexis) and has written numerous articles and other materials on tax. He is the Director of the MTaxS programme (the leading postgraduate tax course in New Zealand).

David Duff

David G. Duff is Professor of Law and Director of the Tax LLM program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches and writes in the areas of areas of tax law and policy, corporate and international taxation, environmental taxation and distributive justice. 

Prior to joining UBC Law in 2009, Professor Duff was a faculty member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Before that, he was a tax associate at the Toronto office of Stikeman, Elliott. He was also employed as a researcher with the Ontario Fair Tax Commission from 1991 to 1993 and as a tax policy analyst with the Ontario Ministry of Finance from 1993 to 1994.


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