Philip Kerfs

Bio

Philip Kerfs is the Head of the International Co-operation Unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD and is responsible for the OECD’s policy work relating to the international tax transparency standards and other forms of enhanced international co-operation in tax matters.

Over the past years, Philip has mainly worked on the development of the Common Reporting Standard, the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, the BEPS transparency standards, and the Model Reporting Rules for Platform Operators with respect to Sellers in the Sharing and Gig Economy. Before joining the OECD, he worked for 13 years as assistant general counsel at Euroclear, where he was responsible for the tax area and the regulatory practice area.

Prior to that, he practised tax law at Tournicourt & Vanistendael in Brussels. Philip studied law at the Universities of Namur and Leuven (Belgium) and did an LLM in taxation at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales (Brussels).