Technical Programme with Speakers – April 2021

22 & 24, April 2021 

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME: FIT-IBFD CONFERENCE

DAY 1 : 22 APRIL 2021

OFFICIAL OPENING
17.30 – 17.40 Welcome remarks by Conference Directors (10 minutes)
Chairperson Guglielmo Maisto
Session 1: Taxing Digital Businesses
Multilateral Measures to Tax Digital Businesses 
17.40 – 18.10 Technical presentations: Inclusive Framework – Pillar I proposals: overview and analysis (Vikram Chand – 15 minutes)

UN Tax Committee – Tax on Payments for Automated Digital Services: overview and analysis(TP Ostwal – 15 minutes)

Taxing digital businesses – Trends Emerging from Unilateral Measures
18.10 – 18.45 Technical presentations: Global Overview of Unilateral Measures (Vanessa Arruda Ferreira – 15 minutes)

Taxing Digital Businesses – the Indian Experience 
(Parul Jain – 15 minutes)

Panel discussion(45 minutes)
18.45 – 19.30 Parul Jain (Moderator), Rafic Barrage, TP Ostwal, Akhilesh Ranjan and Kartik Rao
Session 2: Transfer Pricing & ALP in a Covid world – a Double Whammy
Chair Sanjay Tolia
19.30 – 20.30 Key Practical Challenges:

Technical presentation: Raffaele Petruzzi (15 minutes)

Comparability analysis

Losses and allocation of Covid-specific costs Government assistance programmes

Advanced Pricing Agreements

  Panel discussion (45 minutes)

Sanjay Tolia (Moderator), Gabriela Capristano Cardoso, Shikha Gupta, Vishweshwar Mudigonda and Graeme Wood

DAY 2 : 23 APRIL 2021

Opening Remarks
17.30 – 17.35 Chair: Mukesh Butani (5 Minutes)
Session 1: Dispute Resolution – BEPS Action Plan 14 – A Problem Chasing A Solution?
17.35 – 19.00 Technical presentation: Pasquale Pistone (25 minutes)

Action Plan 14: key issues and controversies, including selected country issues
Panel discussion(60 minutes)

Mukesh Butani (Moderator), Akhilesh Ranjan, Sriram Govind and Seema Kejriwal

Session 2: The Multilateral Instrument – Rewriting Tax Treaties in the Post-BEPS era
The MLI, three years later:
18.40

Technical presentations:

The MLI in practice: a Global Overview
(Ridha Hamzaoui – 15 minutes)

The MLI in practice: selected elements
(Ola Ostaszewska – 15 minutes)

The MLI in practice: the Indian experience
(Hitesh Gajaria – 15 minutes)

Interpretation and Application of the MLI – Selected Issue
19.45 – 20.25 Prevention of Treaty Abuse

Artificial avoidance of PEs

Dual Resident Entities
Panel discussion (40 minutes)
Hitesh Gajaria (Moderator), Padamchand Khincha and David Duff 

Concluding Remarks
20.25 – 20.30 Closing Remarks by Conference Directors (5 minutes)
20.30 End of Webinar