17TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TAXATION
DECEMBER 1-3, 2011
ITC MARATHA 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 (France)
Uday Gujadhur (Mauritius)
Shanker Iyer (Singapore)
Roger Wheeler (USA)

OUR SESSION CHAIRMAN
Sohrab Dastur, Senior Advocate, India.

Dinesh Kanabar, KPMG, India.

Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai Associates, India.

Satya Poddar, E & Y, India.

Kiran Umrootkar, Jacobs Engg., India.

Ketan Dalal, PwC, India.

Roger Wheeler, USA.

Mukesh Butani, BMR, India.

Pranav Sayta, E & Y, India.

M. Laxminarayanan, Deloitte, India.

Uday Ved, KPMG, India.

Shyamal Mukherjee, PwC, India.

Caroline Silberztein, Baker & McKenzie, France.

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

TECHNICAL SPEAKERS
Day One :
PROPOSED DIRECT TAX CODE IN INDIA: AN UPDATE
Views of a wide range of Indian tax experts with responses by Sunil Gupta and Ashutosh Dikshit from the Direct Tax Code Task Force, India.

Panelists:
Dinesh Kanabar, Chairman Tax - KPMG, India.

R. N. Dash, Director, General of International Taxation, India.

Shefali Goradia, Tax Partner, BMR Advisors, India.

Akil Hirani, Managing Partner, Majmudar & Co., India.

Nihar Jambusaria, Tax Head, BDO, India.

Dev Joory, Director, International Financial Services, Mauritius.

Option A - INDIRECT TAXATION DEVELOPMENTS
Satya Poddar, Partner, Policy Advisory, E & Y, India.

Rajeev Dimri, Head - Indirect Taxation, BMR Advisors, India.

Chris Needham, Global VAT/GST Leader, General Electric (UK).

Piet Vandendriessche, Deloitte, Belgium.

Bela Sheth Mao, Shell India.

and Central and State government officials involved in Indirect Tax matters in India.

Option B - INTERNATIONAL TAX STRUCTRING FOR INVESTING ABROAD
Shanker Iyer, Chairman, The Iyer Practice, Singapore.

Stephen W. Bowman, Partner, Bennett Jones, Canada.

Professor Veerinderjeet Singh, Managing Director, Tax and Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia.

Girish Vanvari, KPMG, India.

Natascha Scholten, Director, TMF Group, United Kingdom.

Day Two:
INTERNATIONAL TAX ANTI-AVOIDANCE RULES IN PRACTICE AND IN TAX TREATIES (Plenary session)
Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah, Michigan Law School, United States.

Harry L "Hank" Gutman, Director, KPMG Tax Governance Institute, United States.

Philippe Martin, Supreme Court Judge, France.

Brian Cleave, Former Chief Solicitor (UK Inland Revenue).

Professor Stef van Weeghel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Professor Luc de Broe, Laga, Belgium.

Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Joint Secretary, Finance Ministry, India.

Day Three:
Option A - INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS
Michael Lennard, Chief, International Tax Cooperation and Trade Section, United Nations.

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

Carol Dunahoo, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, United States.

Toshio Miyatake, Professor, Japan

Nordine Bensouda, General Treasurer, Ministry of Finance, Morocco.

Professor Philippe Malherbe, Advocate, Belgium.

Miguel Valdes, Machado Associados, Brazil.

Kyung Geun Lee, Partner, Yulchon (Tax Lawyers), Korea.

Kaushik "Kim" Desai, Chown Dewhurst LLP, United Kingdom.

Option B - TRANSFER PRICING AND ARM'S LENGTH PRINCIPLE
Caroline Silberztein, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, France.

Shanto Ghosh, Senior Director and Principal Economist, Deloitte, India.

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

Michelle Levac, Chair - OECD Working Party 6, OECD, Paris.

Monique van Herksen, Partner, Ernst & Young, The Netherlands.

Professor Toshio Miyatake, Partner, Adachi Henderson, Miyatake & Fujita, Japan.

Rashmi Saxena Sahni, Commissioner Income Tax, India.

In addition, there is a Q & A Session with the Transfer Pricing Directorate in India chaired by Director General of Income Tax (International).

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: We have presentations from Guernsey, Jersey, Mauritius and the United Kingdom.

PANEL DISCUSSION SESSIONS: We have several discussion sessions, including:
Panel Session I - Are treaty overrides under anti-avoidance rules in domestic tax law justified?
Panel Session II - Anti-avoidance Rules - Role of the Judiciary.
Panel Session III - Recent International Taxation Developments in India.
This final panel session will be presided by the Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Government of India.

In our 2011 conference, we have over forty-five expert speakers and panellists 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.

We look forward to your participation at our 17th annual conference in 2011. The conference registration will begin formally on June 1, 2011. However, you may register earlier if you wish. For further details and 2011 registration form please download it from our website - www.fitindia.org

OUR SUPPORTERS:
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, 2011.

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

In Co-operation with   Taxsutra   International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation and Asia - Pacific Tax Bulletin   International Fiscal Association - India Branch   International Tax Review    Indian Merchants Chamber

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

Conference Promotion by

Conference Media Partner

FIT Publications by   Taxmann Publication Pvt. Ltd.

MESSAGE FROM THE CONFERENCE DIRECTORS - 2011
Our plenary session this year is on International Tax Anti-avoidance Rules on Day Two. We have planned a three-day programme with concurrent sessions on separate topics on Day one and Day Three. They are :
Day One: (a) An Update on the Proposed Direct Tax Code in India: Some Key Issues (b) Concurrent Sessions (i) International Structuring for Investing Abroad and (ii) Indirect Taxation Developments;
Day Two: (a) International Tax Anti-avoidance Rules, and (b) International Tax Anti-Avoidance in Practice and Tax Treaties, and
Day Three: Concurrent Sessions: (a) International Tax Developments: (i) United Nations Model Treaty Developments and (ii) Some Recent Global International Tax Changes, and (b) Transfer Pricing Trends and Country Experiences .
The concluding session includes a question and answer session with the Indian Transfer Pricing Directorate and a panel discussion on Recent International Taxation Developments in India, which will be televised by Bloomberg UTV in India.

In addition, there are several panel discussions and sponsored presentations on international financial centres and trusts.

Professor Roy Rohatgi / Roger Wheeler (USA)
Conference Directors