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John Chown
NationalityBritish
Alma materGordonstoun and Selwyn College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Monetary Economist and International Tax Specialist[1]
AwardsAdam Smith Prize
Websitejohnchown.co.uk

John Chown is a monetary economist and international tax specialist with special reference to currency and financial markets. He is now retired from Chown Dewhurst LLP,[2][3] the firm he founded in 1962 but is still very active and is Tax Policy Adviser to Gabelle LLP. Chown writes and speaks about the implications of the financial crisis with special reference to the future of the Eurozone, the EU proposal for a Financial Transactions Tax and the development of capital markets in transitional and emerging economies.[4]

Early life and education

Chown was educated at Gordonstoun and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he won the Adam Smith Prize for a dissertation on fixed versus floating exchange rates, and is an Honorary Fellow of the College.[5]

Career

Chown has been a public policy adviser to Conservative Chancellors and Shadow Chancellors,[6] commenting on European tax harmonisation proposals and visiting Canada, Australia, New Zealand as an international adviser on their respective tax reforms. He was a member of the Know How Fund, which provided market and taxation advice to transitional countries after the collapse of Communism. He has done advisory work in Russia, including a World Bank project of the development of capital markets and has worked with Jackie Newbury on projects in Mongolia and Thailand.

Chown is a co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[7][8] In 2013 he was secretary to the International Tax Specialist Group, and a member of the Political Economy Club, The European Government Business Relations Council (the ”Ad Hoc Council”), the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, and the Russo British Chamber of Commerce. He is on the advisory council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

Chown is Honorary Financial Adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians, and on the committees of the London Handel Society and the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.

Writings

Chown was a member of the Association of Monetary Union in Europe. He is the author of "A History of Monetary Unions" (Routledge 2003),[9][10] and has contributed a chapter, "Lessons of Monetary History", to the new IEA study, "The Euro – the Beginning, the Middle … and the End?" (April 2013) and reviewed for Central Banking, Harold James "Making the European Monetary Union" (February 2013).

Two articles and several other reviews in Central Banking deal more generally with the financial crisis. His article "Conflicts of Interest and Systemic Risk" Central Banking, November 2010, discusses improper (and therefore unsustainable) profits made by banks, and their potential threat to financial stability, and is a follow-up to an earlier article in November 2009, "Towards a New Banking System". He has contributed chapters to more that fifteen books on the topics of tax reform and monetary policy.

Chown published "End to Underwriting: How the Coalition can avoid being Ripped Off", Centre for Policy Studies, August 2011. Chown was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Committee in late 2011[11] and followed this with a publication "Time To Bin The Tobin Tax" Centre for Policy Studies, April 2012.

Books

  • A history of monetary unions. London [u.a.]: Routledge. 2003, ISBN 9780415277372.
  • The Taxation of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives - John Chown & Kim Desai, Financial Times Financial Publishing, Pearson Professional Limited, ISBN 1 85334 714 0, 1997.
  • A History of Money - from AD 800 - John Chown, Routledge, London and New York, 1994, ISBN - 0-415-10279-0, paperback 1996.[12]
  • "Tax Efficient Foreign Exchange Management" - John F Chown. Woodhead Faulkner, Cambridge, 1990. ISBN 0 85941 595 3.
  • "Tax Efficient Forex Management" - Professional Publishing. 1986.[13][14]
  • "Taxation and Social Security Europe" - The Economist Publications in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1985.
  • "Taxation and Social Security Europe" - Mica International in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1984.
  • "Foreign Exchange Risk: A Tax and Financial Analysis" - (Oyez Longman 1983.)
  • "Offshore Financial Centres" - J F Chown (4th ed revised by Mary Cook) Banker Research Unit, 1981 (1st ed, 1975 as Offshore Investment Centres).
  • The taxation of direct investment in the United States. London: Butterworths. 1980, ISBN 978-0-406-53958-8.
  • "Corporate Finance under Floating Exchange Rates" - J F Chown. Cityforum Ltd, 1979.
  • "Foreign Currency Debt Management" - J F Chown and M J Finney. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
  • "Investing in the Eastern Mediterranean" - J F Chown and G N Stathopoulos. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
  • "Taxation and Multinational Enterprise" - J F Chown. Longman, 1974.
  • "Acquisition of Assets, Companies and Real Estate in Europe" - J F Chown and M Edwardes Ker. Financial Times, 1974, published by The Financial Times.
  • "Corporation Tax under the Imputation System" - John Chown and Richard Norman. Financial Times 1973.
  • "VAT Explained" - J F Chown. Kogan Page, 1972 and 1973.
  • "International Fund Year Book" - John Chown Editorial consultant, Investors Chronicle publication, July 1970, published Throgmorton Publications Limited, 1970.
  • "International Bond Market in the 1960's" - J F Chown and R Valentine. Frederick A Praeger, 1968.

References

  1. ^ Hakeem Kolapo Fujah (2004). Breathing Thoughtfully. Trafford Publishing. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-4120-2000-8.
  2. ^ "Government warned of valuation risk to bank sale". Public Finance Mmagazine.
  3. ^ Baguley, Darren. "Taxed beyond all reason". CRN Magazine.
  4. ^ Adrian Williamson (17 February 2015). Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964-1979. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-1-137-46027-1.
  5. ^ "Selwyn College Calendar 2014 - 2015". Issuu.
  6. ^ "Recent published flat tax proposals". Tax Matters, UK Tax Reform Commission, 2006.
  7. ^ "Higher taxes could drive more Brits abroad". A Place in the Sun.
  8. ^ Akam, Simon (15 March 2016). "The British umpire: how the IFS became the most influential voice in the economic debate". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "A History of Monetary Unions", Economic History Association website, reviewed by Officer, Lawrence H.
  10. ^ "BOOK REVIEWS". Wiley Online Library, 4 March 2005
  11. ^ "Towards a Financial Transactions Tax?" - European Union Committee. List of witnesses
  12. ^ Anirban Biswas (1 January 2007). Money and Markets from Pre-colonial to Colonial India. Aakar Books. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-81-89833-20-6.
  13. ^ Kole, Karen V. "Book Review: Tax fficient Forex Management". Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, Volume 7 Issue 3, via Scholarly Commons, Northwestern University.
  14. ^ "Book Reviews". 11 Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus. 165 (1990-1991) Index to Volume 6-10
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