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SCTP Tax In Conversation 2022


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Recommended: A discussion on the new tax landscape and what it could mean to Singapore
Date:
26 January 2022, Wednesday

Closing date: 19 January 2022, Wednesday or when spaces are filled

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Time:
10.30AM - 12.00PM

Tech check from 10.15am

Venue:
Online

CPE Hours (Income Tax):

1 hour(s)

CPE Hours (GST):

0.5 hour(s)

Fees:
Complimentary
Contact:
Contact Nabila (+(65) 6360 5969) or enquiry@sctp.org.sg
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Programme Synopsis

As we welcome 2022, we recognise that we are not just stepping into a new year, but a new year that will be very different even from last year and which in many ways, will introduce a whole new meaning to the phrase “business as usual”.
 
Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP), together with four veteran and distinguished Accredited Tax Advisors, has specially curated a complimentary panel discussion to explore and give you a better understanding of how the brave new business world, particularly the tax landscape, is evolving, and where it may be heading. 
 
Join in this New Year discussion that promises to set you thinking about the year ahead. Walk away, better equipped as tax professionals and business leaders, with practical insights into key fiscal drivers and a heightened awareness of emerging tax issues. 

Programme Outline

  • Get a recap of key developments from 2021 that will shape 2022 and beyond
  • Know what the key international trends are and the tax initiatives that will affect Singapore and businesses here. For example:
    - Gain insights on how changes to talent procurement and work arrangements have resulted in new tax issues and how businesses may possibly manage these new tax challenges these changes throw up
    - While much has been said on corporate tax, listen in on the observations in indirect taxes and indirect tax audits 
  • Understand how tax compliance has evolved and what it takes to manage tax in the new era
  • Explore the trending tax topics such as what the OECD is up to, wealth tax and what Budget 2022 might shape out to be

About the Facilitator(s)


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Mr David Sandison
Singapore Practice Leader and Head of Tax
Grant Thornton Singapore
Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax)


David joined the firm in July 2019 to head up the Tax practice, after a 35-year career in international tax with a big four accounting firm in London, Melbourne and Singapore (as a well as a five-year “post retirement” spell running his own tax practice). He leverages off that unique international experience to help his Multinational clients (big and small) structure and manage their cross-border business operations, not only from a tax perspective, but also from a commercial and practical perspective, having dealt with, in his time, clients in almost every industry and situation imaginable.

On the external front, David was for many years a member of Taxation and Levies Committee for the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore, and latterly performed the same role for the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals, now known as Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

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Ms Evelyn Lim
Executive Director, Tax Advisory
BDO Singapore
Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax)


Evelyn has over 18 years of experience in Singapore and international taxation. Her experience is in the areas of tax planning, tax compliance and effective tax function planning, efficient structuring of cross border transactions, mergers and acquisitions (tax due diligence and structuring) and corporate re-organisations. 

She has also assisted clients in applying and negotiating with the relevant authorities for tax incentives as well as agreeing clients’ tax positions with the tax authorities.

Evelyn’s extensive experience in advising and developing tax efficient structures for inbound and outbound investments for international clients is accumulated from her years in a Big Four in Singapore and about 6 years in Beijing, China during which she provided international tax advice to both Chinese and international clients.

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Mr Koh Soo How
Partner – GST
Grant Thornton Singapore
Accredited Tax Advisor (GST)


Soo How leads Grant Thornton Singapore’s GST practice and has over 25 years of knowledge and experience in indirect tax. He started his career in indirect tax with the IRAS as a senior member of the core team that introduced the GST in Singapore in 1994. ​

Before joining Grant Thornton, Soo How ran his own indirect tax advisory firm and was also previously a Partner at one of the Big 4 firms where he nurtured the growth of its indirect tax practice and led the firm’s Asia Pacific indirect taxes network. ​

As an established professional in GST, Soo How had been appointed by the Minister for Finance for two terms from Jan 2013 to Dec 2018 as a member of the GST Board of Review, which is an administrative tribunal established to adjudicate disputes between businesses and the Comptroller of GST.

Soo How has been consistently named as one of the world’s leading indirect tax advisors by International Tax Review for over a decade in recognition of his practical advice and solutions.​

He is an Accredited Tax Advisor (GST) with the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP) and sits on its GST committee.

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Mr Sivakumar Saravan
Senior Partner
Crowe Singapore
Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax)


Siva is a senior partner and head of tax at Crowe Singapore. He has over 25 years of experience in tax compliance and tax consultancy work for individuals, multinationals, and financial institutions.

Siva has extensive experience in advising clients on international corporate and personal tax implications of various cross-border transactions involving the countries in the Asia Pacific region. Recently, he has been actively involved in helping digital businesses, including blockchain start-ups, understand and address the local and international tax implications of their transactions.

Siva has conducted numerous seminars to tax professionals in corporations. He is a sought-after speaker in areas such as withholding tax, permanent establishment, interpretation of tax treaties and employee taxation.  He is also actively involved in contributing to the array of tax literature on Singapore taxation. He is the author of Singapore Withholding Tax Online and the book “Tax Essentials for HR Professionals, Singapore” both published by Wolters Kluwer. 



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