Members

The Honourable Anthony D.J. Gafoor sits at the helm of the Tax Appeal Board holding the post of Office of Chairman since his appointment on December 15th 1998. The Office of the Chairman is by virtue of the Tax Appeal Board Act on par with that of a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court.

H.H. Anthony D.J. Gafoor was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1987 and in 1988 he was admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago. Whilst in the United Kingdom, His Honour served in private practice and also as legal adviser to a number of Government departments including the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, the Department of Energy and the Department of Trade and Industry, There he practiced in the fields of criminal and family law, general civil litigation, planning, energy law, company and commercial law and taxation.

His Honour Mr. Anthony D.J. Gafoor holds sundry qualifications in the fields of law, international relations, classics, philosophy, and theology. He is a certified mediator in family and civil matters as well as a mediation trainer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK. In addition to this, he is also an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies and a Member of the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago. He has served on various international bodies including the Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation Committees of the International Bar Association, and is also a member of the Association of Conflict Resolution, USA, the International Association for Conflict Management, USA and the Civil Mediation Council, UK.

The Honourable Chairman is the first person to be awarded with the Executive Certificate in Conflict Management from the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada in conjunction with the Stitt Feld Handy Group. He is the second in the Caribbean to be awarded the Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK.

The Tax Appeal Board of Trinidad and Tobago is pleased to announce that His Honour, Mr. Anthony D. J. Gafoor, Chairman of the Tax Appeal Court, has been appointed a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Assembly of Tax Judges (IATJ) in 2017. The IATJ is the preeminent global body of jurists formed in Rome in 2010 to enable jurists in the field of tax and other related areas to meet and exchange ideas pertinent to global tax affairs such as FATCA, interpretation of double tax treaties, tax havens and other relevant matters.

The IATJ is characterised as a critical forum for the dissemination and discussion of relevant statutory provisions and case law pertaining to various tax jurisdictions. Its membership is drawn from all five continents and has been chaired since 2010 by the Honourable Eugene P. Rossiter Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada who is assisted by the Board of Directors whose members are drawn from the global network of tax judges.

The Board of Directors is chaired by the Honourable Mr. Justice Rossiter, Chief Justice, Tax Court of Canada and also comprises other judges including Judge Malcolm Gammie, QC, United Kingdom, Justice Fabio Prieto, Brazil, Judge Peter Panuthos, US Tax Court, Justice Petri Saukko, Finland, Justice Dr. Vineet Kothari, India, Judge Manuel Garzón, Spain, Judge Manuel Luciano Hallivis Pelayo, Mexico, Judge Jennifer Davies, Australia, President Massimo Scuffi, Italy.

As defined by Article 2 of its by-laws, the IATJ is comprised of Courts, Tribunals or Administrative Bodies, Judges or retired Judges which or whom, irrespective of their official title (for instance Court, Tribunal, Justice, Judge, Adjudicator, Advocate-Generals, Tribunal Chair or Member, or the like) are or were nevertheless empowered to adjudicate, in disputes involving direct or indirect tax assessments. We of the Tax Appeal Board would like to congratulate the Honourable Chairman, H.H. Anthony D. J. Gafoor for this singular honour and wish him continued success.