Professor Neil Brooks has taught tax law and policy for almost 30 years and is director of the Graduate Program in Taxation.  His research interests are tax; tax planning and policy; corporate and international tax; financing the welfare state.  Professor Brooks has published extensively on income tax issues and was the editor of the Canadian Tax Journal from 2001 to 2004. He has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to several departments in the government of Canada, and to the governments of New Zealand, Australia and several Canadian provinces.  He was Co-Vice Chair of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission, 1991-94, and has been on several advisory committees for the Auditor-General of Canada and Revenue Canada.  In 2002 he was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teacher's Award for Academic Excellence. He is a frequent speaker and public commentator on current public finance issues. Over the past few years he has participated in capacity building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development); Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency); Japan (Asian Development Bank); China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).

Areas of interest: Taxation Law

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