Day 1 |
09.00 – 10.00 |
Registration & Coffee |
10.00 – 10.15 |
Roy Rohatgi (Conference Director), Welcome to the conference |
Session One |
INTERNATIONAL TAX PRINCIPLES |
Chairman |
Sohrab Dastur, Senior Advocate, India |
10.15 – 11.45 |
Special Speaker- Professor Klaus Vogel, Emeritus Professor at the University of Munich, Germany The Role of Domestic Law in Tax Treaty Interpretation (Presentation & Questions)
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11.45– 12.25 |
Dinesh Kanabar, Partner, RSM & Co., India Recent controversies in Treaty Interpretations in India Acquisitions
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12.25 – 12.45 |
Panel Discussion and Questions |
12.45 – 13.00 |
Chairman’s Remarks Lunch (Sponsored by Campden Publishing Limited, United Kingdom) |
13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch (Sponsored by Campden Publishing Limited, United Kingdom) |
Session Two |
OVERSEAS TAXATION |
Chairman |
Shailesh Haribhakti, Partner, Haribhakti & Co., India |
14.00 – 14.40 |
Duncan Bentley, Professor of International Tax Law, Bond University, Australia Tax planning for investing in China
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14.40 – 15.20 |
Alex Magell, The Dixcart Group, Guernsey (Channel Islands) Tax Advantages of Portuguese Companies for Investment and Trading with the European
Union
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15.20 – 16.00 |
Professor Guenther Strunck, Arthur Andersen, Germany The German tax system and international Tax Planning |
16.00 – 16.30 |
Tea |
16.30 – 17.00 |
Hon. Sushil Khushiram, Minister for Economic Affairs, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs, Government of Mauritius. Recent Legislative and Institutional Changes affecting Mauritius as an International Financial Centre. |
17.00– 17.30 |
Clarel Benoit, Association of Offshore Management Companies, Mauritius Mauritius as a Base for Regional Headquarters Companies
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17.30– 18.00 |
Panel discussion and questions |
18.00 – 20.00 |
Cocktails and Dinner (Sponsored by the Financial Services Promotion Agency, Mauritius) |
Day 2 |
10.00– 10.30 |
Coffee |
10.00– 10.15 |
Roy Rohatgi (Conference Director), Welcome to the conference |
Session Three |
THE USE OF TAX TREATIES |
Chairman |
Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai Associates, India |
10.00 – 11.10 |
Walter Raineri, Partner, Fenwick & West, United States Income Characterization under Domestic Law and Tax Treaties
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11.10 – 11.50 |
Cancelled |
11.50 – 12.30 |
Jitendra Sanghavi, Practicing Chartered Accountant, India Exchange of Information under Tax Treaties
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12.30 – 13.00 |
Discussion & Questions |
13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch (Sponsored by Kluwer Law International, United Kingdom) |
Session Four |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS |
Chairman |
Nawshir Mirza, Director, Ernst & Young Private Limited, India |
14.00 – 14.40 |
John Neighbour, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris (France) Recent Developments in OECD Guidelines on Transfer Pricing
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14.40 – 15.20 |
T P Ostwal, Partner, Ostwal, Desai & Kothari,India The New Transfer Pricing Rules in India and their Impact
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15.20 – 16.00 |
Porus Kaka, practicing Tax Lawyer, India OECD Recommendations on Taxation of Electronic Commerce
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16.00 – 16.30 |
Tea |
16.30 – 17.10 |
Ketan Dalal, Partner, RSM & Co. International Taxation of Independent Personal Services
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17.10 – 17.50 |
Herman Schoeman, Guardrisk Insurance Company, South Africa Captive Insurance in International Tax Planning: Risk financing and Tax Structuring |
17.50 – 18.25 |
Panel Discussion and Questions |
18.25 – 18.30 |
Concluding Remarks |
18.30 – 22.00 |
Cocktails and Dinner (Sponsored by The Haribhakti Group and ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton Hotel, respectively) |