INTERNATIONAL TAXATION CONFERENCE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE – PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE – PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS
December 6 – 8, 2018 – Mumbai
Conference Programme 2018
THEME: BEPS AND BEYOND BEPS : RECENT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
POST RATIFICATION OF MULTILATERAL INSTRUMENT (MLI)
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DAY 1 : DECEMBER 6, 2018 (THURSDAY) |
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| 08.00 – 20.00 | Registration |
| 08.45 – 09.15 | Opening Remarks: Roy Rohatgi, Conference Director,Foundation for International Taxation, India |
| 09.15 – 09.45 | Welcome: Belema Obuoforibo, Director of Knowledge Centre, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, The Netherlands Click Here to view the Presentation  |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Special Address: Murray Clayson, President, International Fiscal Association – Worldwide (Video Recording) |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Break |
| Plenary Session: | |
| Multilateral Instrument (MLI) and BEPS | |
| Chairman | Porus Kaka, former President, International Fiscal Association-Worldwide: 2012-17 |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Parthasarathi Shome, Chairman, International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation, India and Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics International Taxation: Resilience or Decline of Multilateral Instrument Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Sam Sim, Executive Board Member, Asia Chapter, TEI, Singapore Digital disruption to the Global Value Chain and the Future of Transfer Pricing Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Mindy Herzfeld, Professor, University of Florida, USA US Tax Reform & BEPS: A Symbiotic Relationship Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | John Peterson, Head of Aggressive Tax Planning Unit, OECD, Paris OECD/BEPS – Global Developments and Aggressive Tax Planning (An Overview) Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Ola Ostaszewska, Manager IBFD European Knowledge Group, The Netherlands Book Launch of IBFD Publication of Basic International Taxation – Vol.One (Third Edition) along with some comments on the new Publication. |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Lunch Break |
| Plenary Session: | |
| Afternoon | |
| Chairman | Belema Obuoforibo, Director of Knowledge Centre,International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, The Netherlands |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Monica Bhatia, Head of Global Forum Secretariat, OECD, Paris Exchange of Information (including Beneficial Ownership) under Action Thirteen: Some Issues and Comments Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Ian Young, Ex-Chair, UK Charter Committee, HMRC, UK A Review of Taxpayers’ Charters and Taxpayers’ Protection: Comments Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 15.00 – 16.30 | Milind Kothari, Managing Partner, BDO India LLP, India Tax Technology-Tax Practice-Transformation & Disruption Panelists: Rahul Kashikar -Rahul Patni – Dev Ramnane – Amit Sarkar – Vinay Sethi (all from India) Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Belema Obuoforibo , Session Chairman – Concluding Remarks |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Tea Break |
| Plenary Session: | |
| Late Afternoon (Option A) | |
| Chairman | William Morris, Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader with PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA & Chairman, BIAC (Video Recording) Nishith Desai (Stand-In) |
| 17.30 – 19.30 | International Taxation of Digitised Business: Current Scenario Panel Discussion led by Sol Picciotto,UK. Panelists: Robert Danon,Switzerland – Sriram Govind, Vienna WU – Mindy Herzfeld, USA -Akhilesh Ranjan, India – Mike Williams, UK, followed by Chairman’s Remarks and comments from the floor. Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Late Afternoon (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Rodney Lawrence, Global Leader, International Tax Services, KPMG, United States |
| 17.30 – 19.30 | Recent Tax Reforms in the United States (2017): their Current Status and their Impact on other major Global Tax Systems Panel Discussion led by Marc Levey, USA: Panelists: Hitesh D. Gajaria,India – Pragya Saksena, India – Robert Stack, USA – Christopher Xing,China – Lawrence Zlatkin, USA followed by Chairman’s Remarks and comments from the floor Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 19.30 – 22.00 | Networking Dinner |
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DAY 2 : DECEMBER 7, 2018 (FRIDAY) |
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| Plenary Session: | |
| BEPS in India: Impact on Indian Tax Policy and Objectives | |
| Chairman | Dinesh Kanabar, , Founding Partner, Dhruva Advisors LLP, India |
| 09.00 – 09.15 | Session Chairman’s Introductory Remarks |
| 09.15 – 9.45 | Akhilesh Ranjan, Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes and Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (International), India Recent Developments in International Taxation in India under BEPS Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 9.45 – 10.15 | Parthasarathi Shome, Chairman, International Tax Research and Analysis Foundation, India and Visiting Fellow: London School of Economics. International Taxation: The Economic and Legal Interface |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Tea Break |
| Chairman | Parthasarathi Shome, Chairman, ITRAF, India |
| 10.45 –12.30 | BEPS and Indian Tax Policy, Practice and Compliance in Future Panel Discussion led by Dinesh Kanabar Panelists: Ketan Dalal – Gautam Doshi – Hitesh D. Gajaria – Vipul Jhaveri – Milind Kothari – Pranav Sayta – Girish Vanvari (all from India) |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Dr. Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, India Making of New India through Transformation under Modi Government Book Launch – Author: Dr. Bibek Debroy |
| 13.00 – 1400 | Lunch Break |
| WELCOME TO OECD DIRECTOR AND SPEAKERS | |
| Chairman | Professor Roy Rohatgi, Conference Director |
| 14.00 – 15.15 | The OECD’s Challenges and Contributions to International Taxation with Special reference to BEPS Project. “Klaus Vogel” (Keynote) Speaker: Pascal Saint-Amans. Other Speaker from OECD (Paris) include Monica Bhatia – John Peterson – Jeffrey Van Hove Brief presentations followed by Questions and Vote of Thanks byRajesh Ramloll Mauritius. |
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| Digitised Business: Latest OECD Proposals | |
| Chairman | Sol Picciotto, Professor, International Centre for Tax & Development, UK |
| 15.15– 16.30 | International Taxation of Digitized Business: Recent OECD Proposals (December 2018). Discussion in the presence of Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD, led by Sol Picciotto, UK, and followed by Panel Discussion. Panelists: Rasmi Ranjan Das, India – John Peterson, OECD Sam Sim, Singapore – Jeffrey Van Hove, OECD– Mike Williams, UK. |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Tea Break |
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| Treaties and Tax Certainty under MLI (Option A) | |
| Chairman | Robert Stack,, Managing Director, Deloitte Tax & International Tax Group, USA |
| 17.00 – 18.15 | Post BEPS Treaties and Tax Certainty under Multilateral Instrument: Can Tax Certainty be achieved with a Policy of Abuse Prevention in post BEPS World? Presentation by Robert Danon, Professor, Lausanne University, Switzerland & Chair, Permanent Scientific Committee, International Fiscal Association followed by Panel Discussion in the presence of Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD led by Rajesh Ramloll, Mauritius. Panelists: Mukesh Butani, India – Belema Obuoforibo, IBFD – John Peterson, OECD – Jeffrey Van Hove, OECD – with final comments by the Chairman and Professor Robert Danon, Lausanne. Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Mergers and Acquisitions (Option A) | |
| Chairman | Gautam Doshi, Managing Director, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, India |
| 18.15 – 19.30 | Tax Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions. Presentation by Girish Vanvari,Founder, Transaction Square LLP, India followed by Panel Discussion led by Pranay Bhatia, India. Panelists: Vivek Gupta, India – Bobby Parikh, India – Amrish Shah, India – Himanshu Sinha, India – Jeffrey Van Hove, OECD. Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Judicial Tax Perceptions of the Permanent Establishment (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Vijay Mathur, Senior Tax Advisor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, India |
| 17.00 – 19.30 | Presentation by Radhakishan Rawal, Partner, Deloitte, Haskins and Sells LLP on Varying Tax Perceptions for determining Permanent Establishment and the Approach of the Judiciary towards them, followed by Panel Discussion led byJairaj Purandare, India. Panelists: Kuntal Dave, India – Akshay Kenkre, India – Mahesh Kumar, Singapore – Ola Ostaszewska, IBFD – PVSS Prasad, India -Simachal Mohanty, India – Kamlesh Varshney, India. Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 19.30 – 22.00 | Networking Dinner hosted by International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation(IBFD) to celebrate their 80th anniversary since its establishment in 1938. |
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DAY 3 : DECEMBER 8, 2018 (SATURDAY) |
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| Tax Dispute Resolution (Morning) | |
| Chairman | Hon’ble Justice P P Bhatt, President, Income Tax Tribunal, India |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Resolution of Tax Disputes in the post BEPS World – What are the New Legal Measures and Approaches in Domestic and International Laws recommended under BEPS Action 14? A Critical Review. Panel Discussion led by Rajesh Ramloll, Mauritius. Panelists: Rajat Bansal, India – Pramod Kumar, India – Sunil Moti Lala, India – Jeffrey Owens, UK – G S Pannu, India – Himanshu Sinha, India, followed by Chairman’s Remarks |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Tea Break |
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| Impact of New Technologies on International Taxation (Option A) | |
| Chairman | Clive Baxter, Maersk Group, Head of Tax Governance and Policy, Denmark |
| 11.00 – 13.00 | Likely Implications of the New Technologies on future Tax Policy and Administration (Examples: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Analytics, Virtual Reality, Block Chain, etc.) Presentation by Professor Jeffrey Owens, Vienna WU Austria. Impact on (i) Tax Systems, (ii) Tax Administrations, and (iii) Tax Policies of the Future. Panel Discussion led by Craig West,South Africa. Panelists: Monica Bhatia, OECD – Shikha Mehra, India – Neil Pennington, UK – Sam Sim, Singapore Jon West, USA in the presence of Jeffrey Owens, UK Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Artificial Avoidance of Permanent Establishment Status under Action 7 (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Shefali Goradia, Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, India |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | (i) Dependent Agent Permanent Establishment under BEPS: Is it a Permanent Establishment Under Action 7 ? (ii): Does Permanent Establishment as a Tax Concept have a long-term future in model treaties? Panel Discussion led by Rajesh Simhan, India. Panelists: Bijal Ajinkya, India – Daksha Baxi,India – Amar Mehta, Canada – Jeffrey Van Hove, OECD Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Transfer Pricing Developments (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Vijay Iyer, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, India |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Compare BEPS Actions 8 to 10 on Transfer Pricing with “Arm’s Length Method” under Article 9 and with OECD’s Revised Guidance on “Transactional Profit Split Method”. Will it eventually lead to “formulary apportionment” under the MutualAgreement Procedure? Panel Discussion led by T P Ostwal, India. Panelists: Rahul Mitra, India – Petruzzi Raffaele, Austria – Sanjeev Sharma, India – Hasnain Shroff, India. Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch Break |
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| United Nations Model (Option A) | |
| Chairman | Nishith Desai, Founder, Nishith Desai Associates, India |
| 14.00 – 16.30 | Presentation by Michael Lennard, Chief of International Tax Cooperation and Trade in the Financing for Development Office (FIDO) of the United Nations (Video Recording) on Recent Changes in the UN Model and its Future Role in a BEPS World. Presentation followed by Panel Discussion led by Uday Ved, India. Panelists: Rajat Bansal, India – T P Ostwal, India – Sol Picciotto, UK – Radhakishan Rawal , India – Dhruv Sanghavi, The Netherlands, followed by Chairman’s Remarks. Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Taxpayers’ Rights and Responsibilities (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Shefali Goradia, Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, India |
| 14.00 -16.30 | Presentation by Craig West, IBFD & University of Cape Town, South Africa followed by discussion on Brief Review of Taxpayers’ Rights and Responsibilities in the Era of Automatic Exchange of Information. Can BEPS lead to Tax Terrorism and should it be avoided? What is Tax Terrorism? Panel Discussion led by Arvind Datar, India. Panelists: Monica Bhatia, OECD – Ashutosh Dikshit, India – Rahul Navin, India – Pranav Sayta ,, India – Edson Uribe , Mexico – Ian Young ,UK, followed by Chairman’s Remarks. Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Tea Break |
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| Digital World: Some new Issues for Taxation (Option A) | |
| Chairman | Ola Ostaszewska, Manager, IBFD European Knowledge Group, The Netherlands |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Blockchain Technology: Its Use and Abuse Presentations by Rita Cunha, UK – Shikha Mehra, India – Neil Pennington, UK Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 17.30 –18.00 | Future of Blockchain TechnologyPresentation by Jon West, Vice President of Blockchain Engineering for Thomson Reuters, USA Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 18.00 – 18.45 | Permanent Establishment through Digital Presence: Will it work? Presentation by Himanshu Parekh, Partner, KPMG in India followed by panel discussion. Panelists: Wasoudeo Balloo, Mauritius – N Meyyappan, India. Click Here to view the Presentation |
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| Goods and Services Tax (Option B) | |
| Chairman | Santosh Dalvi, Partner, KPMG in India |
| 17.00 – 18.45 | Goods and Services Tax in India – A Current Update Panel Discussion led by Santosh Dalvi, India. Panelists: Prashant Bhatnagar – Prashant Deshpande – Ashish Jain – Uday Pimprikar – Amit Sarkar (all from India) Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation Click Here to view the Presentation |
| 18.45 – 19.00 | Concluding Remarks and Questions: Monica Bhatia (OECD) -Belema Obuoforibo (IBFD) – Roy Rohatgi (FIT) . |
