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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DECEMBER 4-6, 2008
ITC MARATHA HOTEL, MUMBAI, INDIA
Thursday, December 4, 2008
19.00-22.30 Welcome Social Evening – Cocktails & Dinner
THEME: TRANSFER PRICING ISSUES
Conference Programme 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Day 1
09.00 – 10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome to the Conference
Roy Rohatgi (Conference Director)
Session One
SOME SPECIAL ISSUES IN TRANSFER PRICING
Chairman Sohrab Dastur, Senior Advocate, India
10.15 – 11.15 Special Speaker: Presentation and Questions
Harry L “Hank” Gutman, Director, KPMG Tax Governance Institute, United States
Transfer Pricing and Corporate Governance
11.15– 11.45 Robert Ackerman, Americas Leader Transfer Pricing, Ernst & Young, United States-_ Stand-in speaker: V N Srinivasa Rao, National Leader of International Tax Services, Ernst & Young (Pvt.) Ltd., India
Transfer Pricing and Intangible Planning
11.45 – 12.15 Garry Stone, Global and US Leader of the Transfer Pricing Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, United States
Transfer Pricing for Intercompany Services
12.15– 12.45 Diane Hay, Deputy Director, Corporate Tax and VAT, UK HM Revenue and Customs
Recent Developments in Transfer Pricing: The UK HMRC’s Transfer Pricing Group
12.45– 13.00 Discussion & Questions & Session Chairman’s Remarks
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Session Two
TRANSFER PRICING COMPLIANCE AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Chairman Jairaj Purandare, PricewaterhouseCoopers (P) Ltd., India
14.00 – 14.30 Uday Ved, Executive Director and Head of Tax – KPMG India
Issues Involving Comparability and Profit Methods in Transfer Pricing
14.30 – 15.00 Matthew Frank, Senior Tax Counsel, General Electric Corpn., United States - Stand-in speaker: Vijay Iyer, National Transfer Pricing leader, Ernst & Young (Pvt.) Ltd, India
Advance Pricing Agreements in Transfer Pricing
15.00 – 15.30 Prakash Chandra, Director General (Foreign Tax Division) Government of India (confirmed)
Transfer Pricing Compliance – A Revenue Perspective
15.30 – 16.00 David Sutherland, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Asia, Hong Kong (confirmed)
Some Transfer Pricing Compliance Issues in Asia – A Taxpayers’ Perspective
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion & Questions
16.30 – 17.00 Tea
17.00– 18.00 Discussion Session
Chairman
Roger Wheeler, former Head of Tax, General Motors, United States
Topic – Importance of Corporate Governance in Transfer Pricing
A panel discussion led by Roger Wheeler with selected conference speakers and delegates.
18.00 – 19.00 Presentation by the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency
Topic – Tax issues in Doing Business with the Netherlands
20.00 – 21.00 Presentation by the Flanders Investment and Trade Agency, Belgium and AAMILLtd.
Topic – Tax Issues in Doing Business in Belgium
19.00 – 22.30 Cocktails and Dinner


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008

09.00 – 10.30

Some Recent Legal Decisions on Transfer Pricing Issues in India
A panel discussion led by Mukesh Butani, Partner, BMR & Associates, India with selected conference speakers and delegates

Presentation by V K Mangotra & Alpana Saksena, Directors of Income-Tax (Transfer Pricing), Mumbai (India)
Issues of Litigation in Transfer Pricing in India

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
Session Three
SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSFER PRICING
Chairman Dinesh Kanabar, Executive Director,and Leader of Tax Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, India
11.00 – 11.30 Murray Clayson, Global Head of Tax Practice, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, United Kingdom
PE Attribution Rules and the Transfer Pricing Analogy
11.30 – 12.00 Shikha Gupta, Head- India, General Electric Corporation, India
Recent Developments in Global Transfer Pricing Documentation
12.00 – 12.30 Shanto Glosh, Director and Principal Economist, Deloittes, India
Cost Contribution Agreements in Transfer Pricing - Internatioanl Best Practices
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion & Questions
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Session Four
TRANSFER PRICING AND BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING
Chairman Nishith Desai, Founder – Nishith Desai Associates, India
14.00 – 14.30 Caroline Silberztein, Head of Transfer Pricing Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
OECD Project on Transfer Pricing Aspects of Business Restructurings – An Update
14.30 – 15.00 Michael Murphy, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand LLC, United States - Stand-in speaker: Shyamal Mukherjee, Head of Transfer Pricing Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Pvt.) Limited, India
Transfer Pricing Issues in Business Resturcturing
15.00 – 15.30 Heinz-Klaus Kroppen, Europe, Middle East and Africa Transfer Pricing Leader, Deloitte, Germany
Issue of Locational Savings in Transfer Pricing
15.30 – 16.00 Discussions & Questions
16.00 – 16.30 Tea
16.30 – 17.00 Discussion and Questions on current Indian transfer pricing
Issues with Mr Prakash Chandra and senior transfer pricing officials
17.00 – 18.75

Chairman: T P Ostwal, Partner. T P Ostwal & Associates, India
Topic – Recent Decision on the Vodafoen Case in the Mumbai High Court
A panel discussion with selected conference speakers and delegates

17.45 - 18.00 Concluding Remarks – Roy Rohatgi
18.00 End of Conference
 
OUR NEXT CONFERENCE - THEME: INTERNATIONAL TAX DEVELOPMENTS & INVESTING ABROAD
DATE: DECEMBER 3-5, 2009; VENUE: ITC MARATHA HOTEL, MUMBAI, INDIA
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