The Management Team is responsible for achieving IBFD's objectives summed up in its mission statement:

"IBFD, as an independent and international organization, with the support of the Foundation and an additional outstanding network, wants to offer tax practitioners an authoritative expertise portal in the field of cross-border taxation, which will enable its customers to do their work more quickly and efficiently.

Also, IBFD wants to keep contributing to the development of the international taxation field and its practitioners by offering a platform for the exchange of relevant expertise.

Finally, the IBFD wants to be acknowledged by the international tax community as the world’s best content aggregator."

• Willem Falter, Chief Executive Officer
• Dali Bouzoraa, Technical Director
• Paul van Doorn, Finance Director
• Paul Fermont, Programme Manager
• Jan de Goede, Director Knowledge Centre
• Maarten Goudsmit, Publishing Director
• Carla de Lange, HR Director

The Management Team is responsible for achieving IBFD's mission statement. The Board of Trustees supervises them. IBFD is assisted in its work by an Advisory Council:

• Mr Jean Baeten, Verbond van Belgische Ondernemingen, Brussels (Belgium)
• Ms Veronika Berecz, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna (Austria)
• M. P. Dolan, National Director, IRS - Policies & Dispute Resolution KPMG, Washington (United States)
• Mr Bruno Gibert, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, Paris (France)
• J.H. Guttentag, Former Chairman of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs, OECD, Washington (United States)
• Prof. H. Kaneko, Professor of Law, Tokyo (Japan)
• Dr R. Mansury, Former Assistant Minister of Finance, Jakarta (Indonesia)
• Prof. Dr. W. Nykiel, Dean of the Law Faculty, Lodz (Poland)
• Prof. X. Oberson, professor of Tax Law Geneva, partner Oberson Law firm (Switzerland)
• Mr F.W. Oldenburg, notary public, partner NautaDutilh, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Prof. Dr J. Prebble, Professor of Tax Law, Wellington (New Zealand)
• Prof. Dr C. van Raad, Professor of International Tax Law, University of Leiden (Netherlands)
• H.A. Sherman, CA, FCA, ATII, Tax Consultant, Calgary (Canada)
• Dr V. Singh, vice-president Malaysian Institute of Taxation (Malaysia)
• Mr S. Sollund, Oslo (Norway)
• C.S. Wilkie, Attorney, Toronto (Canada)