David S. Kerzner, Ph.D. is an international tax lawyer who has been counselling business and individual clients in Canada and the United States at his own firm since 2005.
David Kerzner’s Published Books for:
Lawyers, Law Students & Accountants
- The Tax Advisors’ Guide to The Canada-U.S. Tax Treaty
Editor-in-Chief and Principal Author (Thomson-Reuters).
Published by the world’s largest legal and professional publisher. Available in loose-leaf, two volumes, approximately 2,300 pages, or online at TaxnetPro. - International Tax Evasion in the Global Information Age
Published in Canada by the University of Toronto Press; in the UK by Palgrave MacMillan; and online by Springer Nature with over 15,000 chapter downloads. Contributing author: David W. Chodikoff, National Tax Litigation Lead, Miller Thomson LLP. - International Tax: Core Concepts, 2nd Edition (Thompson-Reuters)
Co-authored with Professor Arthur Cockfield JSD (Stanford), a leading authority on international tax enforcement, offshore compliance, and cross border tax evasion strategy.
Education
- PhD (Tax Law) Queen's University
- LLM (in Taxation) NYU School of Law
- LLM (in International Legal Studies) NYU School of Law
- LL.B. Queen's University
- HBA Ivey at Western University
Bar Admissions
- Ontario, 1992
- New York, 1993
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1994
- U.S. Tax Court, 1994
- Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practicing), 2000
Judicial & Academic Recognition
- Cited by the Federal Court of Appeal Canada (Priority Foundation v. Canada, 2025 FCA 180)
- Fellow, Taxation Law & Policy Research Institute, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia (2009-2017)
- Eric. W. Cross Memorial Fellowship, Queen’s University
- Sessional Lecturer, Tax Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
Professional Memberships
- New York State Bar Association
- Law Society of Ontario
- Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority