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Global Tax 50 2024

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ITR presents the 50 individuals who exerted the most influence on tax during 2024 – for better or worse – with world leaders, in-house award winners, activists and others making the cut

Tom Baker
December 10, 2024

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Tom is editor of ITR. He joined the team in October 2023 after stints as a legal journalist and a content professional at an international law firm.
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Global Tax 50 2024

Breaking down the entire 50 individually according to the impact they made would require too granular an approach. Each entry is separated into categories, i.e. industry figures, to make it simpler to navigate.

Industry figures
Tax authorities
Public officials
Noteworthy individuals
NGOs
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Kelly Pan
Pan is global head of transfer pricing at The Lego Company
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Alina Necsulescu
Necsulescu is global indirect tax leader at Veeam Software
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Rafael Benevides
Benevides is a senior tax manager for Meta in Brazil
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Susan Curley
Susan Curley is tax director (international) at Ingram Industries and chair of the US international tax committee at the Tax Executives Institute
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Kevin Burrowes
Burrowes is chief executive of PwC Australia
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Daniel Cordeiro
Cordeiro is a group tax manager at Embraer
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Leonard Wagenaar
Wagenaar is a director at EY
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Ernesto Perez
Perez is global practice leader of Alvarez & Marsal Tax
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Anuprita Mehta
Mehta is senior vice president at ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Yasodhara Roychoudhury
Roychoudhury is a tax leader at PepsiCo responsible for India and South Asia
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Rob Heferen
Heferen is commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Danny Werfel
Werfel is commissioner of the US Internal Revenue Service
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jim Harra
Harra is chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Daniil Egorov
Egorov is commissioner of Russia’s Federal Tax Service
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jeremiah Coder
Coder is the former deputy director of Revenue Jersey
December 10, 2024
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Janet Yellen
Yellen is US Treasury secretary
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Shafik Hebous and Nate Vernon-Lin
Hebous and Vernon-Lin are economists in the IMF’s fiscal affairs department
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Indranee Rajah
Rajah is Singapore’s second minister for finance
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Chrystia Freeland
Freeland is Canada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Manal Corwin
Corwin is the OECD’s director for tax policy and administration
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Wopke Hoekstra
Hoekstra is the European Commission’s commissioner for climate action
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Stephen Jones
Jones is Australia’s assistant treasurer
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Christian Lindner
Lindner was Germany’s finance minister until November 6
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Ralph Recto
Recto is the Philippines’ finance secretary
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jack Chambers
Chambers is Ireland’s Minister for Finance
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Brett Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh is a justice of the US Supreme Court and author of the majority opinion in Moore v United States
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Lula, as he is commonly known, is Brazil’s president
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman
Sitharaman is India’s minister of finance and corporate affairs
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Rachel Reeves
Reeves is UK chancellor
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Donald Trump
Trump is president-elect of the US
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Giorgia Meloni
Meloni is Prime Minister of Italy
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Khalid Ali Al Bustani
Ali Al Bustani is the director-general of the UAE’s Federal Tax Authority
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Valentino Lenoci
Lenoci is a judge at Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Mehmet Simsek
Simsek is Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Minister
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Lan Fo'an
Fo'an is China’s Minister of Finance
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Hunter Biden and Joe Biden
Joe Biden is the US president and Hunter Biden is his son
December 10, 2024
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Gabriel Zucman
Zucman is an economist at the University of California, Berkeley
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Ulf Johannemann
Johannemann, who was once Freshfields’ global tax head, was convicted of aiding and abetting tax fraud in 2024
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jon Moeller
Moeller is chairman, president and CEO of Procter & Gamble and chair of the tax and fiscal policy committee of Business Roundtable
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Luis Moreno
Moreno is co-chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice Coordination Committee
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Joseph Stiglitz
Stiglitz is an economist and co-chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Dan Neidle
Neidle is director of Tax Policy Associates
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jeff Bezos
Bezos is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Eric Lenzen
Lenzen is a former banking lawyer who failed to pay tax
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Robert Venables
Venables is a veteran barrister at London set Old Square Tax Chambers
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: ‘Bitcoin Jesus’
‘Bitcoin Jesus’, real name Roger Ver, is a man charged with tax evasion worth $50m
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Alan Cole
Cole is a senior economist with US think tank the Tax Foundation
December 10, 2024
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Alex Cobham
Cobham is chief executive of the Tax Justice Network advocacy group
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Jason Ward
Ward is the principal analyst of CICTAR
December 10, 2024
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ITR Global Tax 50 2024: Julie Robinson
Robinson is chief executive of the UK’s Independent Schools Council
December 10, 2024

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