International Tax Review

We will find out this Monday, when he presents the Union Budget for the year 2016-2017, if the Indian finance minister will unveil some big bang measures on the economic and tax front to provide much needed impetus to Indian growth story or whether the government’s incremental approach will continue.

Dhruva Advisors LLP is partnering with International Tax Review to present a webinar on the day of the Indian Budget 2016-17, where our experts will discuss the budget proposals and analyse its key implications.

ITR introduce TMF Group's Global Head of Capital Markets & SPV, Jeroen van Zanten and guest speakers, Joel Cooper and Randall Fox of DLA Piper, to elaborate on the most recent developments, on a global scale, of country-by-country reporting requirements; taking the opportunity to share a deeper insight into the specific requirements laid out for highly-impacted jurisdictions.

Managing VAT and excise tax in the current environment is time consuming, costly, and subject to frequently changing mandates. Recent Aberdeen Group research uncovered key strategies that top performing organisations utilize to ensure compliant processes and accurate reports at a lower cost. Learn secrets of leaders that make tax calculation and returns look easy.

You will learn about the:

-Complexity of regulatory change around tax rates and rules
-Difficulty of achieving accurate calculations
-Value of reliable reporting for decision-makers
-Importance of proper audit preparedness
-Benefits of software solutions that automate accuracy and compliance

The Indian Budget 2015 will be the first opportunity for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government to set out in detail how it hopes to create more tax-friendly conditions for investors. Many questions need clarification: Will the GAAR start on schedule? What favourable changes can be made to the direct tax regime to encourage investment? What are the implementation plans for GST and when are they likely to happen? Let Dhruva Advisors and DhruvaVox take you through the main points of the announcement and help you find the answers to these and other issues.

The Indian Budget 2015 will be the first opportunity for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government to set out in detail how it hopes to create more tax-friendly conditions for investors. Many questions need clarification: Will the GAAR start on schedule? What favourable changes can be made to the direct tax regime to encourage investment? What are the implementation plans for GST and when are they likely to happen? Let Dhruva Advisors and DhruvaVox take you through the main points of the announcement and help you find the answers to these and other issues.

Topic title – VAT reforms in China – how do the recent and proposed changes impact on multinational companies
“The first phase of the VAT pilot program was implemented nationwide in mainland China on 1 August 2013. In this web seminar, we take a look at the key impacts for multinational companies doing business in, or with China. We also look at the future phases of the VAT pilot program and what it will mean for businesses in key sectors including financial services, insurance, real estate and construction. We will examine the impact the transition to VAT will have on pricing, overall indirect tax liabilities, changes to contracts, invoicing and IT systems and processes.”

With ever increasing pressures to seek efficiencies in day-to-day processes and increase time for planning and analysis, tax is looking to automate with tax technology. Imperial Tobacco worked with Longview Tax to implement a global data consolidation and reporting solution many years ago and continue to use it today. Learn about the technology, the implementation and the best practices for designing and implementing a solution.

Navigating Change: The Dynamic Environment for Intellectual Property Planning in association with Deloitte

In the light of the announcements such as the Shome recommendations on GAAR, indirect transfers for bringing stability to taxation and an increased need for fiscal consolidation, expectations are high that the upcoming budget will be a positive, but responsible budget with fair and stable provisions.
To find out whether India continues to be an attractive investment jurisdiction and how the provisions may impact global investors, join our expert panellists Rajendra Nayak and Heetesh Veera, Tax Partners Ernst & Young for this web seminar on budget day .

Please join this special ITR Webcast to gather key transfer pricing insights specific to the Oil and Gas Industry value chain. This dynamic presentation, led by Deloitte Tax LLP’s National Transfer Pricing Leaders of its Oil & Gas Industry, will cover three core areas:
•A primer on the O&G industry segments (e.g. upstream, mid-stream, etc.), transfer pricing fundamentals, and transfer pricing issues specific to the O&G industry to broaden the general knowledge base of international tax and transfer pricing professionals
•The rapidly expanding global shale/tight oil and shale gas play and highlight some of the transfer pricing issues inherent in these cross-border investments of oil companies.
•Transfer pricing considerations of intragroup financing that highlights the challenges of pricing cross-border loans in this capital intensive industry.
Given the complexity and variety of tax issues within this industry, this presentation should be the starting point rather than the finish line for all of your O&G Industry transfer pricing inquiries.