DIRK J.J. SURINGA
Partner
Covington & Burling
Dirk Suringa is a Partner in the firm's international tax practice in the Washington, DC office.
Mr. Suringa served as Attorney-Advisor in the Department of the Treasury's Office of International Tax Counsel from 2000 to 2003. While at Treasury, Mr. Suringa participated in the negotiation of the US-UK Income Tax Convention and advised the International Tax Counsel and the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy regarding regulatory guidance projects and tax legislation.
He is the author of numerous articles on international tax matters, including Leading Practitioner Commentary on International Tax Provisions of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, "Other Foreign Tax Credit Changes," 45 Tax Mgmt. Intl. J. 541 (Dec. 13, 2004); "Let the OECD Do the Walking: A Newly Ambulatory U.S. Model", 33 Tax Mgmt. Intl. J. 395 (July 9, 2004); "A Walk Through the Proposed U.S. Nonfunctional Currency Contingent Payment Debt Regulations", 32 Tax Notes Int'l 1021 (Dec. 15, 2003); "Section 904(d) Passive Basket Now Reaches Personal Service Contract Income of U.S. Corporations," 34 Tax Mgmt. Intl. J. 649 (Nov. 11, 2005); and other recent articles. Mr. Suringa also has been selected as the author of the forthcoming Tax Management Portfolio on the US foreign tax credit limitation.
Mr. Suringa received his B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University in 1992, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1996 and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Suringa clerked for the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Suringa is a member of the Florida Bar and the District of Columbia Bar, the American Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association, and the International Bar Association.