Sessions
Session 2: Growing Indirect Tax Challenges in Asia-Pacific
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Wed
David White is a research associate of the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Taxation Research and a New Zealand Public Finance research associate with the Chair of Public Finance at Victoria University of Wellington. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne (2005-10), a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London (2006-10), a Visiting Fellow at the Urban‐Brookings Tax Policy Center, Washington DC (2012), and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2016). His current research focuses on capital gains taxation, international income taxation, and comparative consumption taxation and tax systems in the Asia-Pacific, especially in Southeast Asia.
David was engaged to review Jordan’s double tax treaty policy and international business income tax regime in 2004. He was a member of the Victoria University of Wellington Tax Working Group, which reviewed the New Zealand tax system (2009-10), a commentator for the Mirrlees Review of the United Kingdom tax system (2006-10) and a member of an international group that was invited to evaluate the Henry Review of the Australian tax system (2011).
He is the New Zealand country correspondent for the International VAT Monitor and the Australian GST Journal. He is a member of the advisory board for the New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy and of the editorial board of Revista Mexicana de Derecho Financiero y Tributario/Mexican Review of Public Finance and Tax Law. He is also a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the New Zealand branch of the International Fiscal Association.
David was a Vice President of the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association from 2003 to 2005. He has also worked as a Chief Analyst in the New Zealand Treasury tax policy branch (1987-2000); a commercial lawyer (1983-87); and an international lawyer in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976-83).