Membership
Membership of the Association is open to individuals and corporations alike. In addition to the right to register for the Annual Congresses at a reduced rate, members of the IFA receive free of charge the two volumes of the "Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International" published annually and the Congress Invitation Programme. Corporate members may send two delegates to the annual Congresses and are consequently supplied with two sets Cahiers and two Congress Invitation Programmes. As an extra service, online versions of the IFA Cahiers as from 1980 have been made available on the website of IFA’s Sister Organisation, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam. IFA members in “good standing” (i.e. having no arrears in their annual membership fees) can access these publications free of charge via the secured section of the IFA website. One of the advantages is that new Cahiers will be made available on the Internet as soon as the printed books are available, i.e. annually on June 15. Notwithstanding this additional service, at least for the time being IFA will continue to meet the demand of its members by publishing the Cahiers in book form.
Accessible to IFA members only are the Documents Databases and the List of IFA members, which are available on the secured part of the website.
The List of Members contains the registrations of all IFA members, including applicants for membership who will be admitted at the next Annual Congress. The list contains more than 12,000 addresses which are updated daily on the basis of information supplied by the IFA Branches, or otherwise.* Membership registrations are listed in alphabetical order per country where the members are living. The following options are available:
- Look-up Membership List
- Indicate area(s) of specialisation
- Change your personal address details in Membership List
- YIN (Young IFA Network)
Furthermore, Members of IFA are invited to login and read/search the:
- Congress Documents Database (from 1998)
- Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International (1980-2011)
- Financial Report 2010
- Minutes General Assembly 2011
- Other Documents of interest
Candidates for membership must be sponsored by the IFA Branches, to which they should apply. Please click on IFA Branches for an uptodate list of the 62 IFA Branches.
Applications for membership from countries where there is no IFA Branch should be made to the General Secretariat accompanied by a recommendation from two members of the Association. The General Secretariat coordinates the Association's administrative and scientific activities. Among other conditions, more than twenty members are required for the establishment of a new Branch.
Via the page "What is IFA" a survey can be consulted, which gives an impression of the geographical spread of the members affiliated to the IFA Branches and of the direct members.
For further information, please send an e-mail to: a.gensecr@ifa.nl
*The Secretary General, upon review of the material to be distributed, may give permission to third parties to purchase the Membership List without email addresses.