The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring the 2010 International Tax Student Writing Competition:
- Subject: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties.
- Open to: All students during the 2009-10 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with a tax specialty.
- Submission Deadline: September 30, 2010.
- Prize: $2,000 cash, plus expenses-paid invitation to IFA USA Branch Annual Meeting in Atlanta in February 2011.
Here are the recent winners:
- 2009: Samuel J. Lee (LL.M. 2009, Boston University), A Recommendation, in Light of the Current Economy, for Revising the Way § 304 Applies to International Transactions, 38 Tax Mgmt. Int'l J. 500 (Aug. 2009) (IFA press release)
- 2008: Jason Sullivan, Debt-Equity Hybrid Instruments in a Cross-Border Setting: A Focus on the U.S. Foreign Tax Credit, 53 Tax Notes Int'l 817 (Mar. 2, 2009)
- 2007: David Pozen, Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid, 116 Yale L.J. 869 (2007)
Entires may be emailed to Allison Christians (Wisconsin), Brigitte W. Muehlmann (Suffolk), Brainard Patton (Boston University), and William Streng (Houston).
