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Candace Ewell
Principal
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC
Elson Gaskin
Bank Secretary/Legal Counsel
Central Bank of Barbados
Ms. Candace Ewell is a Principal with PwC’s Washington National Tax Services Practice, where
she leads a group of information reporting and withholding specialists. She has been a frequent
speaker on information reporting matters and is the primary author of thought leadership pieces
that cover a range of information reporting topics which include Foreign Account Tax Compliance
Act (FATCA), as well as other current issues. She has worked with several clients to ensure
accurate information reporting compliance and the remediation of various compliance failures.
She is a former member of the IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC).
Ms. Ewell has worked with the IRS through IRPAC to resolve regulatory issues related to the new
6050W information reporting requirements imposed on merchant acquiring banks. Since joining
the firm in 2007, Ms. Ewell has worked with global financial institutions to remediate information
reporting and withholding compliance failures.
Currently, Candace is a key member of PwC’s global FATCA team and is currently engaged on
several large projects in the Financial Services sector. Prior to joining PwC, Ms. Ewell served two
years as Assistant Chief Counsel for tax matters at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA),
and four years as an Attorney Advisor in the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate),
focused on corporate tax issues.
Elson Gaskin is Chairman of the Task Force on FATCA implementation in Barbados. He is a
bgraduate of the University of the West Indies, the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School and Bangor
University (North Wales) with over 21 years practicing experience as an Attorney at Law. He is a
member of the Bars of Anguilla, Barbados and Saint Christopher and Nevis.
Prior to Joining the Central Bank as its Secretary and Legal Counsel in March 2007, Mr. Gaskin
was General Legal Counsel of the Fair Trading Commission and Principal Crown Counsel in the
Solicitor General’s Chambers.
Mr. Gaskin is a former lecturer in Business Law at the University of the West Indies. He holds an
LLB (Hons.) (UWI), LEC, MBA (Distinction) (Bangor) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered
Bankers of Scotland.
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