| 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 |
