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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: David Johnson

December 08 2025

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Breaking down the entire 50 individually according to the impact they made would require too granular an approach. Each entry is separated into categories, i.e. industry figures, to make it simpler to navigate.

Industry figures
Tax authorities
Public officials
Noteworthy individuals
NGOs
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Ernesto Perez
Perez is global practice leader of Alvarez & Marsal Tax
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Leonard Wagenaar
Wagenaar is a tax director at EY and a social media commentator
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Tom Shave
Shave is Ryan’s president for European and Asia-Pacific operations
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Joe Wilkins
Wilkins is vice president of tax and head of tax for EMEA at Warner Bros Discovery
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Rafael Benevides
Benevides, now at Adyen, was a senior tax manager at Meta until July 2025
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Akanksha Katta
Katta is a tax manager at Landmark Group
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Nitin Agarwal
Agarwal is director for indirect tax operations at shopping mall operator Majid Al Futtaim
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Cameron Dix
Australia-based Dix is executive director of commercial tax at IFM Investors
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Andrew Howell, Eugene Wheelahan, Catherine Pierce
Howell, Wheelahan and Pierce represented PepsiCo in a high-profile Australian tax dispute
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Yasodhara Roychoudhury
Roychoudhury is PepsiCo’s head of tax for India and South Asia
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Khaled Luyo
Luyo is a tax manager at MMG Minera Las Bambas
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Lorena Gaiotto
Gaiotto, now at QuintoAndar, was a tax manager at Uber until June 2025
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Rema Serafi
Serafi is the vice chair for tax at KPMG US
December 08 2025
Amazon’s tax battle
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Darpan Mehta
Mehta is a director for tax for India, Asia-Pacific and Latin America at Amazon
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Scott Bessent
Bessent is the US Treasury secretary and the acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: John-Paul Marks
Marks is chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Merete Agergaard
Agergaard is the director of Skatteforvaltningen (SKAT), the Danish tax authority
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Ruth Owen
Owen is Australia’s Taxation Ombudsman
December 08 2025
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Wopke Hoekstra
Hoekstra is the European Commission’s commissioner for climate action
December 08 2025
Mark Carney
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Mark Carney
Carney is the prime minister of Canada
December 08 2025
Nirmala Sitharaman, India minister of finance and corporate affairs
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Nirmala Sitharaman
Sitharaman is India’s Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Richard Hughes
Hughes is the former chairman of the UK Office for Budget Responsibility
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Mathias Cormann
Cormann is OECD secretary-general
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Gilles Roth
Roth is Luxembourg’s finance minister
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Enoch Godongwana
Godongwana is South Africa’s finance minister
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Friedrich Merz
Merz is the chancellor of Germany
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Rachel Reeves
Reeves is the UK chancellor
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Lula, as he is commonly known, is Brazil’s president
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Javier Milei
Milei is president of Argentina
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Donald Trump
Trump is president of the US
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Chrystia Freeland
Freeland is the former deputy prime minister of Canada
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Jack Chambers
Chambers is Ireland’s minister for public expenditure, infrastructure, public services, reform and digitalisation
December 08 2025
 
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Elon Musk
Musk is a businessman and former senior adviser to US President Donald Trump
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Setu Kamal
Kamal is the first practising barrister to be added to the UK’s tax avoidance promoter list
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Joseph Stiglitz
Stiglitz is an economist and co-chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Jaime Carey
Carey is president of the International Bar Association
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Tom Seymour
Seymour is PwC Australia’s former CEO
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Dan Neidle
Neidle is director of Tax Policy Associates
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Gabriel Zucman
Zucman is an economist and professor at the Paris School of Economics
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Richard Gregg
Gregg is a former partner at PwC Australia
December 08 2025
EY
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Peter White
White is a former EY partner
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Sanjay Shah
Shah is a British hedge fund trader and convicted fraudster
December 08 2025
Toys
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Rick Woldenberg
Woldenberg is CEO of Chicago toymaking company Learning Resources
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Sebastian Gechert
Gechert is a German economics professor
December 08 2025
Paul McNab
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Paul McNab
McNab is a principal at McNab Tax Lawyers
December 08 2025
 
Charity tax
ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Michael O’Neill
O’Neill is the former CEO of Australia’s Tax Practitioners Board
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Luis Moreno
Moreno is co-chair of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice Coordination Committee
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Paul Monaghan
Monaghan is CEO of the Fair Tax Foundation
December 08 2025
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ITR Global Tax 50 2025: Ian Gary
Gary is executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition
December 08 2025

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