Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Philip D Morrison
Deloitte Tax LLP
555 Twelfth Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
US
Tel: (1) 202 879 4977
Fax: (1) 202 661 1095
Email: pmorrison@deloitte.com
Website: www.deloitte.com
Philip D Morrison is a principal with Deloitte Tax in Washington DC. He leads Deloitte’s
international tax quality control function. Mr Morrison has over 25 years of experience as
a tax lawyer, with the last 17 years exclusively in international tax, including inbound and
outbound planning, treaty issues, transfer pricing and controversy work. He joined
Deloitte in 1999, and was previously a partner at Baker & McKenzie.
Mr Morrison provides tax planning and compliance advice to international tax
practitioners in Deloitte offices across the country and around the world, and to their
clients. As leader of the international tax quality function, he leads the committee that
determines the firm’s positions on US international tax questions. He also contributes to
the Washington office’s work to develop or refine international tax planning strategies,
provide training and information on international tax, and act as a liaison with the
government.
Mr Morrison served from 1989 to 1992 as the US Treasury’s international tax counsel, the
US government’s chief legal adviser on international tax matters (including international
tax legislation and regulations), and chief negotiator of tax treaties and director of the
Office of International Tax Counsel. He also represented the US at the OECD and other
multilateral tax forums. Earlier in his career he served as counsel to the US Senate
Finance Committee.
Mr Morrison is a member of the committee on US activities of foreigners and tax treaties
of the American Bar Association tax section, the tax committee of the National Foreign
Trade Council, the International Fiscal Association, and two Washington-based
international tax study groups.
He is an honours graduate of the Harvard Law School, and graduated from Princeton
University with high honours. He has spoken and published widely on various
international tax subjects.
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