We are a multi-disciplined association of over 1000 bankers, trust officers, finance directors, accountants, lawyers and others with a practical interest in the tax aspects of cross-frontier transactions.

We examine our subject mostly from the point of view of the taxpayer; membership is limited to practitioners who act for or in the interests of taxpayers. We were founded in 1975 and are the only association devoted solely to the study of this subject.

The object of our Association is to disseminate and exchange information about international tax planning. This we do in three ways - through our meetings, through our publications and via the internet.

We have three meetings a year - with talks in the morning and discussion in the afternoon and opportunities to mix and mingle over coffees, teas, drinks and lunches.

Our next meeting is in Cannes (10-12 June 2012) followed by meetings in Lisbon (14-16 October, 2012) and Istanbul (17-19 March 2013).

The general pattern of our meetings is that in the morning the speakers deliver their talks and in the afternoon members have the opportunity to address questions to the speakers and explore their topics in more detail. At the conclusion of each meeting, members receive by e-mail a summary of all the talks given at the meeting.

An important feature of membership of the Association is the opportunity it offers to form contacts with practitioners in other jurisdictions. The programmes at our meetings are not overcrowded - deliberately so. There are opportunities during each of the two days and at the receptions in the evenings to mingle with other members.

It is virtually impossible to come away from a meeting of the Association not having learned something new and useful, and not having made at least one contact which proves valuable.

Talks given at past meetings are available on the website as summaries and transcripts. At the conclusion of each meeting, every member who has an e-mail address receives a summary of the talks given at that meeting. The Summaries are also printed in the issue of itpa News following the meeting, and the Transcripts appear in the next issue of the itpa Journal. The Summaries and Transcripts are an invaluable resource, especially for those members who were unable to attend the original meeting. While the Summaries and Transcripts are necessarily obsolescent, a search of these materials can often reveal a clue to the solution of a difficult problem.

Please click this link for information about the Journal and other publications and how to order them.

Between the meetings, members receive the itpa News and the itpa Journal. These are published three times a year. The itpa News contains (among other things) a summary of the proceedings of the last meeting and the programme and booking forms for the next two. The itpa Journal has an edited text of the proceedings. There are also occasional publications. For 2006, these were Retirement in Europe: The Tax Aspect and Retirement in the Caribbean: The Tax Aspect. In 2007 the Private Foundations Handbook and Ten Retirement Destinations were published, and in 2008 (with The Bank of Cyprus) Cyprus Tax Treaties. In 2010, the Association published Six Fiscal Fables by Milton Grundy.

Each member also receives each year a hard copy of the Directory of Members. Like its internet counterpart, it contains the address and the telephone and fax number of each member, the name of his firm and his position in the firm. It is perhaps the most significant advantage of belonging to the Association, that a member faced with a problem involving another jurisdiction, has the telephone and fax number of a fellow member practising in that jurisdiction - often someone he has met and spoken to in the course of one of the Association's meetings.

Members can advertise the services they provide in the Green Book, a directory of services with a circulation of over 5,000 selected recipients. Entries in the Green Book are free, and each member may have up to five of them. Members may also take full-page or half-page advertisments in this publication.

Members are also entitled to a Certificate of Membership and to receive an annual diary, with stick-on labels to mark the dates of the meetings during the year and their early booking dates.

An ITPA member is able to:

Full members:

• The full annual membership fee is £400 plus a single enrolment fee for new members of £130. As a full member you are entitled to appear in the online and printed versions of the Directory of Members and in the Directory of Services (The Green Book). You will have unlimited and unrestricted access to the information on the private pages of our website. Members of the Association meet three times a year for a conference and you will have the opportunity to attend all these meetings. You will receive the three ITPA Journals published annually, the Directory of Members, the Directory of Services (The Green Book), and the ITPA News. You are also offered an annual membership certificate, and a complimentary diary.

Library members:

• If you do not plan to come to meetings or access the website, you can become a Library Member for £120 a year plus a single enrolment fee for new members of £40. This entitles you to free editions of the following publications: the three Journals we produced annually, the Directory of Services (The Green Book), and the ITPA News. Library Members are not offered an annual membership certificate or a complimentary diary however. Nor are you included in the Directory of Members, and the Directory of Services (The Green Book).

Students and Trainees:

• Membership is open to bona-fide students and trainees without an enrolment fee and at a reduced annual fee of £110. Application should be made annually to the Registrar, enclosing evidence of student or trainee status. A limited number of bursaries are available for each meeting, to enable students and trainees to attend the meetings at a reduced fee. A student or trainee awarded a bursary contributes one-third of the attendance fee and the Association contributes the other two-thirds (travel, hotel and other expenses being the responsibility of the student or trainee). Application for a bursary should be made to the Convention Director. Student membership entitles you to the same benefits that full members receive with the exception that you are not offered the membership certificate, or the complimentary diary. As students you are also not included in the Directory of Members, or in the Directory of Services (The Green Book) neither of which you receive.

1. Admission to and renewal of membership shall be on and subject to the terms of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of The International Tax Planning Association (the "Association") and the provisions following (which shall have effect in accordance with the law for the time being in force in the Cayman Islands).
   
2. The Committee shall have power to grant or refuse any application for admission to or renewal of membership without being required to disclose any reason and may delegate such power to a sub-committee established for the purpose (the "Membership Sub-committee") or any member thereof. In the event of refusal of such application any enrolment or annual membership or booking fee paid shall be returned in full.
   
3. The list of members shall not in any circumstances be used as a mailing list or for distributing any circular whether by mail fax e-mail or otherwise except with the prior consent of the Committee. A member shall not make use of the logo of the Association or otherwise give to any person the impression that the services offered by him or his firm are in any way endorsed by the Association.
   
4. A member charged with any criminal offence in any part of the world (which expression shall not include any traffic offence) or with any breach of professional etiquette shall bring the facts to the attention of the Registrar who shall bring them to the attention of the Membership Sub-committee. The membership of a person so charged may be suspended by the Membership Sub-committee and such suspension shall be brought to the attention of the Committee at its next meeting. In the event of conviction such suspension shall become indefinite but the Committee shall nevertheless have power on the application of the suspended member and after considering such evidence as it shall fit to revoke such suspension in which event such suspended member shall be at liberty to renew his or her membership without being required to pay any enrolment fee
   
5. The enrolment fee and the annual fee shall be such as appear from time to time on the website
   
6. A member joining or renewing on or before 30th June in any year shall enjoy the full benefit of membership of the Association from that date until 30th June in the following year and a member joining or renewing on or before 31st December in any year shall enjoy the full benefit of membership of the Association from that date until 31st December in the following year PROVIDED THAT in the event that by reason of the death imprisonment or incapacity of the member or the insolvency or winding-up of the Association or for any other reason whatsoever such benefit shall not be enjoyed for the whole of such period the Association shall be at liberty but shall not be obliged to make to such member such refund (if any) as the Committee shall think appropriate in the circumstances and such member shall have no other or further claim on the Association
   
7. The Association does not endorse any views expressed or guarantee the accuracy of any information contained in any presentation or publication or on the website of the Association and a member making use of such content for any purpose does so at his own risk.