CONFERENCE THEME: PROPOSED DIRECT TAX CODE IN INDIA (UPDATE) - INTERNATIONAL TAX STRUCTURING FOR INVESTING ABROAD - RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES - INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS - TRANSFER PRICING DISPUTES AND THEIR PREVENTION

DECEMBER 2-4, 2010
ITC MARATHA HOTEL / HYATT REGENCY HOTEL, MUMBAI, INDIA

Former Honorary President: Professor Klaus Vogel
Conference Directors: Professor Roy Rohatgi / Roger Wheeler (USA)

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Mukesh Butani
R. K. Chopra
Dinesh Kanabar
T. P. Ostwal
Jairaj Purandare
Kiran Umrootkar
Arvid Skaar (Norway)
Caroline Silberzstein (OECD)
Uday Gujadhur (Mauritius)
Shanker Iyer (Singapore)
Roger Wheeler (USA)

OUR SESSION CHAIRMAN
Sohrab Dastur, Senior Advocate, India.

Dinesh Kanabar, KPMG, India.

Nishith Desai, NDA, India.

Jairaj Purandare, PwC, India.

Mukesh Butani, BMR, India.

Pranav Sayta, E&Y, India.

Uday Ved, KPMG, India.

Samir Gandhi, Deloitte, India.

Shyamal Mukherjee, PwC, India.

Caroline Silberztein, OECD, Paris.

T. P. Ostwal, T. P. Ostwal & Associates, India.

TECHNICAL SPEAKERS
PROPOSED DIRECT TAX CODE IN INDIA - AN UPDATE
K. R. Sekar, Partner, Deloitte, India.

Rahul Garg, Partner, PwC, India.

Gautam Doshi, Group Managing Director, Reliance ADAG, India.

Mukesh Butani, Partner, BMR Advisors, India.

S. Mahalingam, Executive Director and CFO, Tata Consultancy Services, India.

Sunil Gupta, Pragya Saksena & Ashutosh Dikshit, Direct Tax Code Task Force, Government of India.

INTERNATIONALTAX STRUCTURING FOR INVESTING ABROAD
Luiz Frederico Battendieri, Partner, Neves, Soares & Battendieri, Brazil.

Jorge Espinosa, Partner, Espinosa & Asociados, Chile.

Benjamin Cubides, Partner, Rodriguez - Azuero Abogados, Colombia.

Vladimir Gidirim, Executive Director, Ernst & Young, Russia.

Sudhir Kapadia, Partner, Ernst & Young, India.

RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES (Plenary Session)
Jerome Libin, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, United States.

Kees van Raad, Professor, Chairman, International Tax Center Leiden, The Netherlands.

Dave Hartnett, Head of Tax, H.M. Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom.

R. V. Easwar, President, IncomeTax Appellate Tribunal, India.

Carmel Peters, Advice Division, Inland Revenue, New Zealand.

Marc Levey, Partner, Baker & Mackenzie, United States.

Porus Kaka, Senior Advocate, India.

Anita Kapur, Director General of Income Tax (Administration), India.

INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS
Mary Bennett, Head of Division, Tax Treaty, Transfer Pricing & Financial Transactions Division, OECD, Paris.

Dick Molenaar, Partner, All Arts Tax Advisers, The Netherlands.

Alan Granwell, Partner, DLA Piper LLP, United States.

Frans Vanistendael, Professor, Academic Director, IBFD, The Netherlands.

Pieter de Ridder, Partner, Loyens & Loeff, Singapore.

Hitesh Gajaria, Partner, KPMG, India.

TRANSFER PRICING DISPUTES AND THEIR PREVENTIONS
Caroline Silberztein, Head of Transfer Pricing Unit, OECD, Paris.

Al Meghji, Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Canada.

Vispi Patel, Vispi T. Patel & Co., India.

Heinz-Klaus Kroppen, National Tax Partner, Deloitte, Europe.

Anuradha Bhatia, Director of Income-Tax (Transfer Pricing), India.

Melissa Tatton, Deputy Director, HMRC, United Kingdom.

Sean Foley, Former APA Director, United States.

SPONSORED SESSION
Neel Sahai & Gavin Wilkins, Jersey Finance.

Nuno Teixeira & JoaoAlmeida, SDM/Dixcart.

Gregory Jones, Nick Boon, Mike Edwards & Steven Beevers, IOM.

Arcotia Hatsidimitris, IBFD.

Gary Gowrea, Renu Audit & Shefali Goradia, CimTax Services.

Natascha Scholten, Equity Trust Group.

This year we have several sponsored sessions on International Financial Centres and three Discussion Sessions:
Panel Session I - Some New Approaches towards Treaty Dispute Resolution.
Panel Session II - International Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanisms.
Panel Session III - Impact of Proposed Direct Tax Code in India on International Taxation (an Update).

In our 2010 conference, we have over forty expert speakers and panelists from all over the world. As in prior years, our conference will include a sizeable participation from tax regulators, government bodies and the tax judiciary besides delegates from professional firms and multinational organizations in India and abroad.

OUR SPONSORS:
We wish to thank all our sponsors for their financial support. Their details with logos will be provided in our brochure as well as on our website www.fitindia.org as from July, 2010.

Organised by Foundation For International Taxation Email: internationaltax.foundation@gmail.com

In Co-operation with International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation and Asia - Pacific Tax Bulletin International Fiscal Association - India Branch

Supported by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce ( The only bi-lateral Chamber for Indo-US business )

Conference Promotion by

Media Partner

FIT Publications by   Taxmann Publication Pvt. Ltd.

MESSAGE FROM THE CONFERENCE DIRECTORS - 2010
Our plenary session this year is on Resolution of International Tax Disputes on Day Two. We have planned a three-day programme with concurrent sessions on separate topics on Day Three. They are (i) Day One: (a) An Update on the Proposed Direct Tax Code in India, and (b) International Structuring for Investing Abroad, (ii) Day Two: (a) Resolution of International Tax Disputes, and (b) Country Experiences, and (iii) Concurrent sessions on Day Three: (a) International Tax Developments - Model Treaty Developments and Recent International Tax Changes, and (b) Transfer Pricing Disputes and their Prevention. The concluding session includes a question and answer session with the Indian Transfer Pricing Directorate and a panel discussion on the proposed Direct Tax Code in India, which will be televised by Bloomberg UTV in India.

Professor Roy Rohatgi / Roger Wheeler (USA)
Conference Directors
April 2010