Blakes Tax Partner, Scott Wilkie, appointed to IFA Permanent Scientific Committee

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, one of Canada’s leading business law firms, today announced that Scott Wilkie was appointed to the International Fiscal Association (IFA) Permanent Scientific Committee (PSC). The announcement was made at the IFA’s annual meeting in Copenhagen at the end of August.

“The PSC is the key global IFA committee responsible for the professional activities of the global IFA organization. Traditionally, Canada has had at most one representative on this highly visible and important international committee,” said Jeffrey Trossman, Practice Group Leader of the Blakes Tax group. “We are very proud of Scott’s accomplishment, which demonstrates that our Tax group, including our transfer pricing practice and our international tax practice, is widely recognized by the Canadian and international tax bar.”

The PSC, of which Scott is now a member, is composed of leading tax academics and tax practitioners from around the world whose terms are staggered to contribute a measure of continuity that sustains the committee’s permanence. It is “scientific,” in IFA language, because its work is the substantive research work of the organization. One of IFA’s functions, and that of the PSC in particular, is to “see” years into the future about where developments, even latent developments in international tax, may be headed. Members of the PSC gain a profound understanding of long-term trends in the development of tax law and policy. Its long history is closely associated with work in the tax area of several international organizations.