| Day 1 |
| 09.00 – 10.00 |
Registration
& Coffee |
| 10.00 – 10.15 |
Welcome to the conference
Kewal Handa (President, BMA)
Roy
Rohatgi (Conference Director) |
| Session One |
| INTERNATIONAL
TAX PRINCIPLES |
| Chairman |
Sohrab Dastur, Senior
Advocate, India |
| 10.15 – 11.45 |
Jacques Sasseville, Organisation
for Economic Co-operation & Development, Paris, France
Anti-avoidance Measures in International Taxation
(Presentation & Questions)
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| 11.45– 12.25 |
Richard Vann, Challis Professor
of Law, University of Sydney, Australia
Interaction of Tax Treaties and Domestic Anti-avoidance
Rules
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| 12.25 – 12.45 |
Discussion & Questions
|
| 12.45 – 13.00 |
Session Chairman’s Remarks |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
| Session Two |
| OVERSEAS TAX PLANNING |
| Chairman |
Jairaj Purandare, Senior. Executive
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Ltd., India |
| 14.00 – 14.14 |
William Sample, General Manager,
Worldwide Income Tax, Microsoft Corporation, United States
International Tax Planning Issues in a Large Multinational
Company
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| 14.40 – 15.20 |
Gautam Doshi, Partner, RSM &
Co., India
Approach to Anti-avoidance in India – Judicial
& Legislative
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|
| 15.20 – 16.00 |
Akhilesh Ranjan, former Joint
Secretary, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Government of India
Anti-avoidance Rules in Indian Tax Law – A Revenue
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|
| 16.00 – 16.30 |
Tea |
| 16.30 – 17.10 |
Ketan Dalal, Partner, RSM &
Co., India
Planning Inbound and Outbound Transactions involving
India and OECD and Non-OECD Countries -- Non-Transfer Pricing
Issues
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| 17.10 – 17.40 |
Discussion and Questions
|
| 17.40 – 18.40 |
Presentation on Mauritius Global Business
organised by the Financial Services Promotion Agency
in the presence of Hon. Sushil Khushiram, Minister
of Industry, Financial Services & Corporate Affairs, Government
of Mauritius |
| 18.40 – 22.00 |
Cocktails and Dinner (hosted
by The Financial Services Promotion Agency,
Mauritius) |
THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday, December 4, 2004
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| Day 2 |
| 09.00 – 10.00 |
Panel discussion: Some Recent
Decisions of the Indian Authority for Advance Rulings
A panel discussion chaired by Justice Syed Shah Mohammad
Quadri (Chairman – AAR) and led by Mukesh
Butani (Partner – BMR & Associates, India)
and selected conference speakers.
|
| 10.00 – 10.30 |
Coffee |
| Session Three |
| RECENT DEVELOPMENTS |
| Chairman |
Vijay Mathur, former Director
General – International Taxatation, Government of India |
| 10.30 – 11.10 |
David Partington, Organisation
for Economic Co-operation & Development, Paris, France
Recent OECD Developments in International Taxation
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| 11.10 – 11.50 |
Ned Shelton, Director, Sheltons
(International Tax Counsel), Denmark
Tax Anti-avoidance
Rules in Europe
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|
| 11.50 – 12.30 |
Cym Lowell, Partner, Gardere
Wynne Sewell LLP, United States
Planning Inbound and Outbound Transactions involving
India and OECD and Non-OECD Countries - -Transfer Pricing Issues
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| 12.30 – 13.00 |
Discussion & Questions |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
| Session Four |
| ANTI-AVOIDACE RULES |
| Chairman |
Dinesh Kanabar, Partner, RSM
& Co., India |
| 14.00 – 14.40 |
Brian Cleave, Member of the Bar
of England and Wales and an honorary Queen’s Counsel,
United Kingdom
Anti-avoidance in the United Kingdom:
the Disclosure Alternative Click
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| 14.40 – 15.20 |
Daniel Sandler, Professor, University
of Western Ontario, Canada
Controlled Foreign Corporation
Rules And Development Economies
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| 15.20 – 16.00 |
Walter Raineri, Partner, Fenwick
& West LLP, United States
U.S. Judicial Doctrine
in the Anti-avoidance Area
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| 16.00 – 16.30 |
Discussion and Questions |
| 16.30 – 17.00 |
Tea
|
| Chairman |
Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai
Associates, India
|
| 17.00 – 18.15 |
Discussion – Should General Anti-avoidance
Rules be enacted in Domestic Tax Law?
A panel discussion with the special speaker, Jacques
Sasseville, and other conference speakers
|
| 18.15 – 18.30 |
Concluding Remarks – Roy Rohatgi
(Conference Director)
Vote of Thanks – Anant
Singhania (Vice President, BMA) |
| 18.30 |
End of Conference |
