2011 IFA Tax Seminar

2011 IFA International Tax Seminar

Thursday May 19-Friday May 20, 2011

Meeting Room 206, North Building
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West, Toronto ON

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Co-Chairs:
Steve Suarez, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto
Terry McDowell, Ernst & Young LLP, Toronto

Agenda

Thursday May 19, 2011
8:30	Registration/Refreshments
9:00	Opening Remarks/IFA 2011 Congress Reports
9:25	Emerging Issues in Tax Treaties (sourcing issues, hybrids, FTCs, etc.) Albert Baker, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Vancouver (Chair) Shawn Porter, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Toronto Angelo Nikolakakis, Couzin Taylor LLP (allied with Ernst & Young LLP), Montreal
10:15	Refreshment Break
10:45	Working with Partnerships in a Cross-Border Context Brian Mustard, CA, KPMG LLP, Montreal (Chair) Marc Ton-That, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto Michael McLaren, Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver
11:30	Tax Issues in Developing Economies (Brazil, Chile) Terry McDowell, Ernst & Young LLP, Toronto (Chair) Michael W. Colborne, Thorsteinssons LLP, Toronto Ricardo Escobar, Ernst & Young LLP Antonio Abreu, Di Blasi, Parente, Vaz e Dias, São Paulo, Brazil
12:15	Luncheon and Address Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director, Macdonald Laurier Institute, Ottawa ON IFA Canada Annual General Meeting
2:15	OECD Update and U.S. Developments Brian Bloom, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Montreal (Chair) Steve Ruby, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto Dennis Metzler, Deloitte & Touche LLP
3:30	Refreshment Break
4:00	Government Roundtables Canada Revenue Agency Roundtable Co-Chairs: • Ronald K. Durand, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Toronto • Stephen W. Bowman, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto Department of Finance Roundtable Co-Chairs: • Robert Raizenne, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Montreal • Nick Pantaleo, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto
5:30	Close
6:00 7:00	Cocktail Reception Dinner Imperial Room, Fairmont Royal York Hotel
	Friday May 20, 2011
8:30	Current Cases Kathleen Penny, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto (Chair) John Lorito, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Toronto Clifford Rand, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Toronto
9:15	Information Management (disclosure, retention, circulation, privilege) Sandra E. Jack, Felesky Flynn LLP, Calgary (Chair) Andrew H. Kingissepp, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto Peter van Dijk, TD Bank, Toronto Philip R. West, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington DC
10:15	Refreshment Break
10:45	Outbound Developments (including foreign affiliate update) Steve Suarez, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto (Chair) Ken Buttenham, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Toronto Penny Woolford, KPMG LLP, Toronto
11:30	Current Issues in Transfer Pricing for the Financial Services Industry Brian Schneiderman, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (Chair) Tom Tsiopoulos, Ernst & Young LLP Tom Akin, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto
12:30	Buffet Lunch

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