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Save the dateJanuary 15, 20198:30 AM - 5:00 PM GMT+8 Add to Calendar

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JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong

Queensway 88
Hong Kong

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Organizer

Organizer: Deloitte

Phone: +852 28521269

Contact Person: Evon Chik

Email: echik@deloitte.com.hk

Speakers

Sarah Chin

Partner of Deloitte China

Sarah Chin

Partner of Deloitte China

Sarah Chin is the Tax and Business Advisory Services Leader – Southern Region. She is also the National, and the Asia Pacific Regional Leader, for Indirect Tax and Customs at Deloitte China and a member of the Steering Committee of Deloitte's Global VAT and Customs group.

Sarah started her career as an inspector with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in the U.K. before entering the consulting profession. Sarah spent 7 years in the UK primarily advising on Governmental issues and International VAT before relocating to Switzerland where she spent 8 years establishing an International VAT Centre of Excellence prior to building and heading up an International VAT team in Switzerland for another Big 4.

Sarah works with clients in planning and implementing complicated VAT and Customs structures both in China and globally. Sarah is experienced in resolving some of the most complicated Customs matters regarding TP Valuations, Classifications and Anti-smuggling. Her main interest also lies in implementing supply chain structures combining the optimal export VAT refund structure, utilizing Customs driven reliefs. Although Sarah has in-depth experience in a number of industries, such as luxury products, manufacturing industry and automotive industry, her specialism lies in the Life Science and Pharmaceutical sector. Sarah is the global indirect tax and Customs lead for some of Deloitte's most strategic clients. For the past few years, Sarah has worked as a domestic expert with the Chinese Government on the design and approach of the VAT Reform.

Sarah issued many articles or books in different publications including International Tax Review ("ITR"), "Taxation", "CCH's China Tax Guide". She was quoted as Recognized Tax Adviser, “World Tax Guide” by ITR in 2009 and was named as an Indirect Tax recognized leader from 2012 through to 2017. She was also continuously recognized as a global leading indirect tax and Customs advisor. Sarah is a Chartered Tax Advisor with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. She also works as a recurring lecturer for the University of Zurich, University of Shanghai and University of Wuhan.

Tel: +852 2852 6440
Email: sachin@deloitte.com.hk

Sitao Xu

Partner of Deloitte China

Sitao Xu

Partner of Deloitte China

Xu Sitao is Chief Economist and Partner of Deloitte China, spearheading Deloitte's economic and industry research. Prior to Deloitte, he was Chief Representative of China and EIU forecasting director at the Economist Group from 2004 to 2014.

Sitao worked for MMS International of Standard and Poor’s Group in Singapore as the Economist for Indonesia, Korea and Thailand in 1995. He joined Standard Chartered Bank as Regional Treasury Economist in 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he was Societe Generale’s Chief Economist for Asia. In 2003, he became the Head of Economics of ICBC (Asia).

Sitao has written for YaleGlobal Online, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caijing, Caixin and 21st Century Business Herald. He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, CCTV, and other TV shows as a commentator on China. He is on the Speaker Retainer Program for the Virginia-based CFA Institute, and is often invited by leading MNCs to their board rooms, to present key issues on China.

Sitao holds a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, a M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and a M.S. in Finance from Boston College. He was a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2012. He is also a guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Tel: +86 10 8512 5601
Email: sxu@deloitte.com.cn

Sarah Chan

Partner of Deloitte China

Sarah Chan

Partner of Deloitte China

Sarah Chan is a Tax Partner of Deloitte China and has more than 25 years of tax and business advisory experience. She is also the Lead Partner of Business Process Solution team of Deloitte Hong Kong office.

Having previously worked in China and the USA, Sarah has extensive experience in advising multinational corporations on structuring transactions, business reorganization, operational re-modelling, cross-border financing and exploring investment options and exit plans. Her expertise also includes resolving contentious issues and disputes with local tax authorities and managing tax, financial and regulatory reporting of companies with multi-jurisdictions operations.

Sarah’s main industry focuses are technology, consumer and industrial products, professional and financial services.

Sarah is a qualified accountant, and fellow member of the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and Hong Kong Taxation Institute. She is also sitting in the Taxation Faculty Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Mainland Tax Sub-Committee of the Institute.

Tel: +852 2852 1628
Email: sarahchan@deloitte.com.hk

Tony Jasper

Partner of Deloitte China

Tony Jasper

Partner of Deloitte China

Tony Jasper is a Senior Partner who leads Global Employer Service practice in Southern Region and as National Leader for GES. He is a regular speaker on all aspects of global mobility planning and remuneration strategies in Hong Kong, China and the Asia Pacific region.

Tony is the National Leader of our Global Employer Services practice and has extensive experience in managing large expatriate engagements and in dealing with all aspects of the assignment process from remuneration policy design through to country specific tax planning.

Having lived and worked in the UK, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, Tony has a key sense of the issues facing MNCs operating in Asia and the need to provide strong practical advice.

Tel: +852 2238 7499
Email: tojasper@deloitte.com.hk

Danny Po

Partner of Deloitte China

Danny Po

Partner of Deloitte China

Dr. Danny Po has more than 30 years of experience in China, Hong Kong and international tax and business advisory services. He has been working closely with his teams in AP ICE, Hong Kong and the Mainland of China to provide a wide range of greenfield and transaction related tax services for both China inbound and outbound investment projects.

Danny is an active speaker on China, Hong Kong and international cross-border tax topics for trade associations and professional bodies as well as media in the Mainland of China and Hong Kong.

Danny is a fellow member of the HKICPA, ACCA, ICAEW, HKTI and HKICS. Danny has a DBA degree granted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a MBA degree granted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tel: +852 2238 7333
Email: dannpo@deloitte.com.hk

Claus Schuermann

Partner of Deloitte China

Claus Schuermann

Partner of Deloitte China

Claus Schuermann is a Tax Partner of Deloitte China in Hong Kong in the International Tax Services team and the German representative in the Asia-Pacific International Core of Excellence. He has over 23 years of practical corporate tax experience in Germany, Singapore, China and Hong Kong providing tax advice to MNC, SME and individuals.

During his 14 years in Asia, Claus advised European MNCs with regard to their Asian investments, including setting up and acquisitions, Business Model Optimisation, Asia-Pacific outsourcing projects, incentive schemes. He has practical experience advising on Hong Kong tax matters as well as China tax matters.

Claus also advises Asia-headquartered MNC on acquisitions and investments to Germany. His client base includes corporates from the consumer goods, automotive, life science and healthcare and financial services industries.

He is a Certified German Tax Advisor.

Tel: +852 2238 7884
Email: clschuermann@deloitte.com.hk

Leonard Khaw

Partner of Deloitte China

Leonard Khaw

Partner of Deloitte China

Leonard Khaw is a Global Business Tax Services partner based in Hong Kong, and the Co-leader of Deloitte's Asia Pacific International Core of Excellence (AP ICE), a group of senior tax professionals that provides cross border tax services to Asia Pacific-based companies investing abroad, as well as multinational companies investing in the region.

Leonard is also a Deputy Managing Partner of the Deloitte China Tax & Legal Services practice.

Leonard has more than 37 years' experience as a practicing tax professional in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and the UK.

Leonard has extensive experience assisting multinational enterprises with planning, structuring and managing their operations globally, in particular, in the Asia Pacific region. He serves several of the largest of Deloitte’s multinational enterprise clients in the region, helping their businesses to run smoothly, and assisting them to shape their tax strategy, and to mange their tax risks in the currently fast changing tax regulatory and compliance environment.

Leonard also has extensive experience working with financial institutions, advising them in relation to transactions that they undertake, and investment and financing structures in which they or their clients participate.

Tel: +852 2852 1078
Email: LKhaw@deloitte.com

Victor Zhang

Director of Deloitte China

Victor Zhang

Director of Deloitte China

Victor Zhang is a Director in Deloitte China’s cross border tax team, specializing in transfer pricing and is based in the Shanghai office. With more than 11 years of experience, Victor is a core member of Deloitte China business model optimization team as well as BEPS technical study center. He has assisted in the business model planning and implementation for MNCs/Chinese companies in the industries of FMCG, equipment, electronics, chemicals, and software, etc. In addition, he also has extensive experience in audit defense, APA, international strategic tax review, operational TP, and thin-capitalization study, etc.

Victor worked with the Global Strategy Group of Deloitte U.S. for the international tax planning and global effective tax rate management of U.S. based multinationals.

Victor has also presented as speaker in seminars and tax authority trainings, as well as published technical articles in tax journals.

Victor holds a master of economics degree from Jinan University, and is a member of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and China Certified Public Accountant (CICPA).

Tel:+852 2238 7588
Email: viczhang@deloitte.com.cn

Petrina Chang

Director of Deloitte China

Petrina Chang

Director of Deloitte China

Petrina Chang is a Tax Director with the Transfer Pricing team at Deloitte Hong Kong. She has over 15 years of professional experience in Hong Kong, China and regional transfer pricing planning advisory and documentation projects, as well as consulting experience in Hong Kong and China taxation. Her work also covers cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and China, as well as inbound and outbound investment strategies into Hong Kong / China.

Petrina’s major clients cover a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, trading, telecommunications and financial services. Her unique professional experience equips her with comprehensive skills and knowledge in advising MNCs and Hong Kong clients on transfer pricing planning, business model optimization and supply chain planning projects, R&D/ headquarter/ regional cost sharing arrangements, formulation of global transfer pricing policy as well as applications for Bilateral Advance Pricing Arrangements and Mutual Agreement Procedures.

Tel: +852 2852 1662
Email: petchang@deloitte.com.hk

Thomas Chang

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Thomas Chang

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Thomas Chang is a member of the Asia Pacific International Core of Excellence (AP ICE), a group of senior tax professionals that provides international tax services to Asia Pacific-based companies investing abroad, as well as multinational companies investing in the region.

Thomas is experienced in advising private equity funds and multinational corporations on US federal income tax aspects of mergers and acquisition (M&A) and cross border investments, as well as IPO structuring, corporate restructuring, US tax due diligence, and FATCA compliances.

Before joining Deloitte APICE in Hong Kong, Thomas worked in Los Angeles and Taipei specializing in US M&A tax, US international tax and Chinese inbound investment in the US. He was also a lawyer of a Chinese law firm where he focused his practice on venture capital and private equity fund formation.

Tel: +852 2852 6555
Email: thomaschang@deloitte.com

Christina Mai

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Christina Mai

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Christina Mai is a Senior Manager in Deloitte Hong Kong’s transfer pricing team, with over 10 years of experience. She was with Shenzhen and Chicago Global Transfer Pricing Service team in another big 4 firm and has accumulated valuable experience for both China and the U.S. transfer pricing practice.

Christina has participated in different kinds of transfer pricing projects, including transfer pricing audit defense, BAPA application, transfer pricing risk assessment, transfer pricing documentation and value chain planning, for a number of multinational and domestic enterprises in multiple industries.

Christina graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a master degree in financial management. She is proficiency in Chinese and English and has two years’ working experiences in the U.S. before joining Deloitte Hong Kong.

Tel: +852 2852 5853
Email: chmai@deloitte.com.hk

Robert Olson

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Robert Olson

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Robert Olson is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Global Trade Advisory practice in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years experience in the customs and trade arena, including industry, brokerage and consulting experience.

Robert assists companies with managing their import/export compliance on a global basis through automation process transformation. He has broad technical experience with business planning, automation and execution in the areas of customs valuation, tariff classification, origin and free trade agreements, performing compliance audits and assisting companies in structuring their global supply chains to maximize opportunities for duty savings while minimizing exposure to customs compliance risks.

Robert additionally has direct experience in the development and implementation of global business process requirements and designs for automated trade compliance systems and supply chain solutions.

He has experience in a wide range of industries, having assisted importers in the high-tech, automotive, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, manufacturing, retail, oil and gas and chemicals. In the automotive sector he has worked for and with OEM’s, Tier 1 suppliers and Tier 2 suppliers. Prior to joining Deloitte, Robert worked with another Big 4 accounting firm and previously for Nissan North America in Nashville, TN, where he was responsible for designing and implementing trade compliance programs for Nissan's distribution and manufacturing operations.

Tel: +852 2531 1866
Email: robolson@deloitte.com.hk

Karen Ng

Manager of Deloitte China

Karen Ng

Manager of Deloitte China

Karen Ng is a Manager of the Transfer Pricing team in the Business Tax and Advisory Group of Deloitte Hong Kong. She has around 5 years of professional experience in Hong Kong, China and regional transfer pricing advisory and documentation projects, as well as consulting experience in Hong Kong taxation. She also participated in projects of Business Model Optimization, tax dispute resolution, competent authority’s tax relief (including advance pricing arrangement), as well as Base Erosion and Profit Shifting compliance and consultancy.

Karen’s major clients cover Hong Kong, China and multinational enterprises from a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, trading, e-commerce, telecommunications, electronic products and financial services.

Karen is a fellow member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Tel: +852 2238 7685
Email: kareng@deloitte.com.hk

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China Tax Conference 2018/2019 Hong Kong

Changing times, stay ahead

Sarah Chin

Partner of Deloitte China

Sitao Xu

Partner of Deloitte China

Sarah Chan

Partner of Deloitte China

Tony Jasper

Partner of Deloitte China

Danny Po

Partner of Deloitte China

Claus Schuermann

Partner of Deloitte China

Leonard Khaw

Partner of Deloitte China

Victor Zhang

Director of Deloitte China

Petrina Chang

Director of Deloitte China

Thomas Chang

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Christina Mai

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Robert Olson

Senior Manager of Deloitte China

Karen Ng

Manager of Deloitte China