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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DECEMBER 2-4, 2010
ITC MARATHA HOTEL, MUMBAI / HYATT REGENCY HOTEL, MUMBAI
THEME: TRANSFER PRICING ISSUES
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - ITC MARATHA
Day 1
08.00 – 20.00 Registration
09.30 – 09.50 Welcome to the Conference (Conference Chairman)
Morning
PROPOSED DIRECT TAX CODE (DTC) IN INDIA - AN UPDATE (ITC MARATHA)
Chairman Dinesh Kanabar, Deputy CEO and Chairman, Tax, KPMG, India
09.50 – 10.00 Session Chairman's Remarks
10.00– 10.20 M. Lakshminarayanan, Head of Tax, Deloitte, India
Income Tax Act and Double Tax Avoidance Agreement
10.20– 10.40 Rahul Garg, Partner, PwC, India
Taxation of Foreign Companies
10.40– 11.00 Gautam Doshi, Group Managing Director, Reliance ADAG, India
Anti-avoidance Rules
11.00– 11.20 Mukesh Butani, Partner and Tax Practice Leader, BMR Advisors, India
Transfer Pricing Issues and their Resolution
11.20 – 11.40 Murray Clayson, Global Head of Tax Practice, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, United Kingdom
An lnternational Perspective
11.40 – 12.10 H. Shrinivasulu, Sunil Gupta & Ashutosh Dixit, Direct Tax Code Committee, Government of India
Indian Revenue Perspective
12.10 – 12.30 Discussion and Questions
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Afternoon
INTERNATIONAL TAX STRUCTRING FOR INVESTING ABROAD (ITC MARATHA)
Chairman Nishith Desai, Founder, Nishith Desai Associates, India
13.30 – 14.30 Luiz Frederico Battendieri, Partner, Neves, Soares & Battendieri Advogados, Brazil; Jorge Espinosa, Managing Partner, Espinosa & Asociados, Chile; Benjamin Cubides, Partner, Rodriguez - Azuero, Colombia(Co-ordinator: Juan Manuel Idrovo, Colombia)
Investingin LatinAmerica - Brazil, Chile and Colombia
14.30 – 15.00 Vladimir Gidirim, Executive Director, Ernst & Young, Russia
Investing in CIS Countries
15.00 – 15.30 Sudhir Kapadia, Partner, Ernst & Young, India
Investing in and out of India - An Update
15.30 – 16.00 Discussion & Questions
16.00 – 16.30 Tea Break
Sponsored Session
17.00 – 17.30 Jersey - Jersey Finance
17.30 – 18.00 Madeira - Dixcart Management
18.00 – 18.30 Isle of Man - IOM Finance
19.00 – 22.00 Cocktails and Dinner

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010 - ITC MARATHA

Day 2
Morning
RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES IN INDIA - (ITC MARATHA)
Chairman Sohrab Dastur, Senior Advocate, India
10.00 – 10.15 Session Chairman's Remarks
10.15 – 11.00 "Klaus Vogel" Speaker: Jerome Libin, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, United States
Current Global Scenario in Tax Dispute Resolution
11.00 – 11.40 Professor Kees van Raad
Tax Dispute Resolution under Model Tax Treaties
11.40 – 12.20 Dave Hartnett, Head of Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom
Tax Dispute Resolution -A Global View
12.20 – 12.50 R. V. Easwar, President, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, India
Tax Dispute Resolution An Indian Judiciary View
12.50 – 13.00 Session Chairman's Remarks
Afternoon
RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES - COUNTRY EXPERIENCES (ITC MARATHA)
Chairman Jairaj Purandare, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, India
14.00 – 14.30 Marc Levey, Partner, Baker & MacKenzie, United States
United States Experience
14.30 – 15.00 Carmel Peters, Advice Division, Inland Revenue, New Zealand
New Zealand Experience
15.00 – 15.30 Vern Krishna, Queen's Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Canada
Canadian Experience
15.30 – 16.00 Porus Kaka, Senior Advocate, India
Indian Experience
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion and Questions
17.00 – 18.00 Tea Break
14.30 – 15.00 Panel Session I : Some New Approaches towards Treaty Dispute Resolution - How to make them more effective?
Discussion session chaired by Roger Wheeler, (former Tax Head - General Motors) with selected speakers and delegates.
Sponsored Session
18.00 – 18.30 Mauritius - CIM Tax Services
18.30 – 19.00 To be Advised
19.00 – 22.30 Cocktails and Dinner

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME – 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010 - ITC Maratha / Hyatt Regency

Day 3
RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES IN INDIA - (ITC MARATHA)
09.00 – 10.30 Panel Session II : International Transfer Pricing Dispute Resolution Mechanisms - A panel discussion led by Roger Wheeler, former Tax Head - General Motors, and Mukesh Butani, Partner, BMR & Associates, India. In the presence (prov.) of Craig Sharon, Director of the APA Program, Internal Revenue Service, United States (ITC Maratha)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
Option One
INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS (HYATT REGENCY)
Morning
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MODEL TREATIES
Chairman Pranav Sayta, Partner, Ernst & Young, India
11.00 – 12.00 Mary Bennett, Head of Division, Tax Treaty, Transfer Pricing & Financial Transactions Division, OECD, Paris
Article 7 - New OECD Rules for Profit Attribution of Permanent Establishments
12.00 – 12.30 Dick Molenaar, Partner, All Arts Tax Advisors, The Netherlands
Article 17- Taxation of Artistes and Sportsmen
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion and Questions
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon
SOME RECENT INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS
Chariman Uday Ved, Partner, KPMG, India
14.00 – 14.30 Alan Granwell, Partner, DLA Piper LLP, United States
Developments in the United States
14.30 – 15.00 Frans Vanistendael, Academic Director, IBFD, The Netherlands
Developments in the European Union
15.00 – 15.30 David Sutherland, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Asia
Developments in Asia (excl. India)
15.30 – 16.00 Hitesh Gajaria, Partner, KPMG, India
Developments in India
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion and Questions
16.30 – 17.00 Tea Break
Option Two
TRANSFER PRICING DISPUTES AND THEIR PREVENTIONS (ITC MARATHA) COORDINATED BY CAROLINE SILBERZTEIN, OECD, PARIS
Morning
TRANSFER PRICING DISPUTES
Chairman Samir Gandhi, Partner, Deloitte, India
11.00 – 11.30 Caroline Silberztein, Head of Transfer Pricing Unit, OECD, Paris
Transfer Pricing Disputes and their Causes - An Overview
11.30 – 12.00 Al Meghji, Partner, Osier, Hoskin & Harcourt, Canada
Some Leading Judicial Disputes in Transfer Pricing (International)
12.00 – 12.30 Vispi T. Patel, Partner, Vispi T. Patel & Associates, India
Some Leading Judicial Disputes in Transfer Pricing (India)
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion and Questions
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon
ADVANCE PRICING ARRANGEMENTS AND SAFE HARBOUR RULES
Chairman Shyamal Mukherjee, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, India
14.00 – 14.30 An introduction by Caroline Silberztein, OECD, Paris
14.30– 16.30 Country experiences in -
India : Anuradha Bhatia, Director of Income Tax (Transfer Pricing)
U.S. : Sean Foley, Principal, KPMG, United States
Europe : Heinz-Klaus Kroppen, National Tax Partner, Deloitte, Germany
Brazil : Heleno Taveira Torres, Professor & Advocate, Brazil
16.30– 17.00 Tea Break
Joint Final Session (ITC MARATHA)
17.00 – 18.00 Question and Answer session with the Transfer Pricing Directorate, Government of India, coordinated by Anuradha Bhatia, Director of Income Tax (Transfer Pricing), India.
18.00 – 18.55 Panel Session III - Impact of Proposed Direct Tax Code in India on International Taxation (an Update)

A panel discussion with selected conference speakers and delegates chaired by T.P. Ostwal, Partner, T. P. Ostwal & Associates, India in the presence of Mr. S. S. N. Moorthy, Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes, India. The session will be moderated by Arun Anandgiri of Bloomberg UTV, India for broadcast on their channel.
18.55– 19.00 Concluding Remarks
THIS YEAR CONFERENCE THEMES: PROPOSED DIRECT TAX CODE IN INDIA -- INTERNATIONAL TAX STRUCTURING
FOR INVESTING ABROAD – RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL TAX DISPUTES – INTERNATIONAL TAX
DEVELOPMENTS - TRANSFER PRICING DISPUTES AND THEIR PREVENTION

DATE: DECEMBER 2-4, 2010; VENUE: ITC MARATHA HOTEL, MUMBAI / HYATT REGENCY HOTEL, MUMBAI, INDIA
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