Rate My Professor Justin Tan

Justin Jerzy Tan is a Senior Lecturer and Vice-Dean (Student Affairs) at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He holds an LLB with First Class Honours and a BBA from NUS, as well as an LLM in taxation from New York University, where he was a Vanderbilt Scholar. Prior to joining academia, he practised tax law at Baker & McKenzie.

Tan teaches cross-border taxation at NUS Law. His publications include articles such as “Vicarious Liability as Risk-Through-Placing” (2022) in the Common Law World Review, “Proximity as Reasonable Expectations” (2019) in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, and “A Big, Frustrating Conundrum: Reflections on Singapore’s Deduction Regime for Interest and other Borrowing Costs following BFC v CIT” (2015) in the Singapore Academy of Law Journal. He is co-author of the Singapore Master Tax Guide (44th edition) and author of the Singapore Income Tax Concise Casebook published by Wolters Kluwer. Tan has contributed reports on interest deductibility for the International Fiscal Association and presented conference papers on GST and tax statute interpretation. He serves in leadership roles within the Faculty of Law, including as Vice-Dean (Student Affairs).