Registration
Date: 03/07/2020 Time: 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Online
Members: FREE / Non Members: $10
Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to the webinar (Zoom meeting) in the coming days.
In case you need to cancel your attendance to the event, please write an email to martin@swisscham.com.au at least 24 hours prior to the event.
Synopsis
Mr Sam Sim, Consultant to the United Nations on Digital Taxes Pillar One and Co-Founder of WTS Taxise Asia LLC, will share with our members aspects on Digital Tax including the latest OECD proposals and a brief survey of digital taxes in the region China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines to bring out the APAC perspective based on his work for the United Nations.
The session will be followed by a joint segment where Mr Prof Danon and Mr Sam Sim will compare “Switzerland and Singapore – A Tale of Two Small Countries in this Turbulent (Digital Tax) World” where they will each speak about the impact in Switzerland and Singapore respectively, and more generally the rise of unilateral digital taxes and the impact on Swiss businesses.
The webinar will take place on Friday, 3rd July from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm via Zoom, and will be moderated by Mr Jean-Marie Lagier, VP Tax at Mercuria, and Honorary Treasurer at SwissCham Singapore. This event is in proud collaboration with SwissCham Australia and Swisscham Hong Kong.
We look forward to welcoming you to our first tax session online!
Sam Sim, Consultant to the United Nations on Digital Taxes Pillar One, Senior Advisor to Vienna University Global Tax Policy Centre, and Co-Founder of WTS Taxise Asia LLC.
Sam was previously Regional VP, Europe, Asia and Latin-America for the Tax Executive Institute (TEI), President of Asia for TEI and Chair of the Capital Markets Tax Committee TP sub-committee. He is a senior advisor to Vienna University, Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Global Tax Policy centre, a member of the ADIT committee of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation and a member of the Practice Council for New York University School of Law. He is a consultant to the United Nations and the Asia Development Bank and a member of the Income Tax Board of Review hearing income tax appeals cases.
He has extensive experience in cross-border taxation, digital tax, transfer pricing, tax controversies including dealing with tribunals, APAs and Intellectual Property issues across a range of industries and sectors including technology, banking & finance, manufacturing and distribution.
Frequently invited as a speaker at international conferences, Sam previously led APAC, EMEA regional and global teams at a Forbes 50 US MNE and a FTSE 100 financial institution. He is an adjunct professor at SUSS’ Master of Tax program and has lectured at Leiden ITC, Shanghai FuDan University, Vienna University, University Indonesia, SMU, Malaysia and Singapore Tax Academies and the IBFD.
An attorney dual qualified in New York and Singapore, he is also a CPA and an accredited tax advisor.
Prof. Dr. Robert J. DANON, Professor of Law, Director Tax Policy Center, University of Lausanne; Partner, Danon, Lausanne
Robert Danon is a Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) where he heads its Tax Policy Center. He is also a founding partner of Danon, an independent firm with a predominant focus on international tax disputes.
Professor Danon currently serves as the Chairman of the Permanent Scientific Committee (PSC) of the International Fiscal Association.
At the national level, Professor Danon’s expertise covers all areas of Swiss tax law. From an international standpoint, he is an expert in tax treaty and investment law, comparative taxation, transfer pricing as well as public international law. His most recent expert opinions have inter alia dealt with, among other things, treaty abuse, permanent establishment exposure, transfer pricing issues and, more fundamentally, the implementation of the BEPS initiative or the interpretation of tax treaties.
Professor Danon is regularly called to give evidence as a testifying expert or to act as a consultant in the framework of mutual agreement and arbitration proceedings, including those involving non-tax agreements such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) or the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).
He also advises governments and taxpayers on reforms and corporate tax governance issues associated thereto. For instance, in 2015, he was requested by Switzerland’s finance minister to analyze its entire post-BEPS corporate tax reform. He has also personally prepared various submissions on tax treaty law to the OECD, for example on (i) beneficial ownership (2011), (ii) hybrid entities (2014), (iii) attribution of profits to permanent establishments (2017) and (iv) the challenges raised by digitalisation (2017-2019)