Mitchell B. Carroll Prize

In order to encourage scientific work, the IFA has instituted a Prize as a tribute to its first Honorary President, Mitchell B. Carroll. This Prize is awarded for a work dealing with international fiscal questions, comparative fiscal law or local fiscal law with the emphasis on the relationships with the fiscal law of foreign jurisdictions.

Subject: International fiscal law, comparative tax law, or local tax law having an important relation with fiscal law in foreign jurisdictions.

Language: English, French and German. English preferred.

Open to: participants under 40 years of age on the 31 of July of the year in which the Prize is awarded, whether they are members of the Association or not.

Conditions:

• Submission of a presentation letter on the topic;
• Submission of a resume including the date of birth;
• Upon submission, candidates need additionally to prepare an article on the topic in English with a maximum of 10.000 words.

Prize: Euro 5.000, plus a medal and an invitation to attend the IFA 2024 Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, exempted from the payment of the Congress registration fee, during which the Prize is awarded. 

Submission deadline: 30 May 2024. Papers entered for the Prize for a given year should be submitted as a soft copy (PDF) by e-mail before the postponed date of 30 May to [email protected].

Jury of the Mitchell B. Carroll Prize

The Jury consists of five members, who are appointed by the Executive Board from amongst the IFA membership upon recommendation by the Permanent Scientific Committee.

Chair

Prof Dr Kees Van Raad (Netherlands)

Members

Peter H. Blessing (USA)
Prof Jacques Malherbe (Belgium) 
Prof Dr Xavier Oberson (Switzerland) 
Prof Dr Wolfgang Schön (Germany)

Please contact the IFA General Secretariat for further details at [email protected].