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Top-Level Seminar ‘Transfer Pricing: Current State of Play and Outlook’ (in English)

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During this 3-day seminar on ‘Transfer Pricing: Current State of Play and Outlook’ (in English) you and other transfer pricing and tax specialists will discuss the transfer pricing (TP) implications of a wide range of topical issues of the post-BEPS world.

You will be brought fully up-to-date with all the important developments to help you framing your TP strategy for the future. You can be assured of in-depth discussions with prestigious speakers like Manuel de Los Santos, Prof. Maarten de Wilde, Philippe Paumier, Isabel Verlinden, Monique van Herksen and Prof. Raymond Luja. And you will also have the opportunity to engage in discussions with your peers.

This will be an unique opportunity for transfer pricing and tax professionals to meet and exchange experience, knowledge and ideas from different perspectives.

The seminar will be held from Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 April 2023.

Key Benefits

  • In-depth, interactive sessions
  • Diversity of participants and lecturers leading to exchange of knowledge and ideas from different perspectives
  • Intensive 3-day programme
  • Max. 25 participants
  • Bridging theory and practice
  • International networking

During the first day of the seminar, we will be discussing OECD developments and future OECD TP works that will set the scene for the discussions taking place over the three days of the seminar. Further, the recent developments surrounding the tax challenges arising from the digitalization of the economy will be discussed as well as the issue of attribution of profits to a permanent establisment including dealing with a case study. We will conclude the first day with providing you further insights in the state aid cases related to TP.

The second day of the seminar will provide a deep dive into special TP topics. A panel will discuss transfer pricing issues in practice including operational TP, sector specific issues and controversy experience. We will also cover managing intangibles in challenging economic times when flexible value chains reign, value chain analysis and TP policy, and key TP court cases.

The final day of the seminar will focus on some relevant topics you may face in practice, including the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings. Various dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve double taxation will also be discussed. The final session will discuss transfer pricing aspects in relation to financial transactions, including practical challenges and a case study.

All the sessions will include plenty of opportunity to discuss each of the topics in detail. Each day will include a case study in which you can participate. The seminar will end with a general reflection on the issues presented and some overall conclusions.

If you are looking to update and expand your TP knowledge and like to network with other professionals, sign up now for the EFS top-level seminar on ‘Transfer Pricing: Current State of Play and Outlook’ to be held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam on 12, 13 and 14 April 2023.

 

EFS is looking forward to welcoming top-level (international) tax and / or transfer pricing specialists (at least 5 years of relevant experience) who wish to discuss recent and future transfer pricing and to network with peers from the following backgrounds:

  • Tax / TP professionals at Multinationals ((senior)managers, directors and VPs)
  • Tax / TP advisory services ((senior)managers, directors and partners)
  • Tax authorities, government bodies and international organisations (e.g., OECD, EC)
  • Academia (PhD researchers, assistant / associate / professors)
  • Legal practice (associates and partners)
  • Judicial authorities (judges at courts of first instance or higher / supreme courts)
Day 1: Wednesday 12 April 2023

8.00 – 8.45 Arrival of participants at Erasmus University Rotterdam

8.45 – 9.00 Opening and welcome address
prof. Peter Kavelaars

9.00 – 10.30 Setting the scene – OECD Transfer Pricing developments
Manuel de Los Santos

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 – 12.30 Tax Challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy
prof. Maarten de Wilde

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.30 Attribution of profits to permanent establishment
Leticia Ortega De Caso

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee/tea break

16.00 – 17.00 State aid and Transfer Pricing
prof. Raymond Luja

18.30 Informal meeting and dinner

Day 2: Thursday 13 April 2023

09.00 – 10.30  Transfer Pricing in Practice
Jan-Paul Vestering and Önder Albayrak

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 – 12.30 Managing intangibles in challenging economic times when flexible value chains reign
Isabel Verlinden

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.30 Value Chain Analysis and TP policy
Barend Broen and Lucia Sahin

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee/tea break

16.00 – 17.30 Overview of key TP court cases
Suhas Sagar and Antonio Russo

18.30 Informal meeting and dinner

Day 3: Friday 14 April 2023

09.00 – 10.30 Transfer Pricing Aspects of Business Restructurings
Philippe Paumier 

10.00 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break

11.00 – 12.30 Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
Monique van Herksen

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.00 – 15.30 Transfer Pricing Aspects of Financial Transactions
Liu Liu and Clive Jie-A-Joen

15.30 – 16.00 Closing remarks and conclusions
Clive Jie-A-Joen and Barend Broen

16.00 – 17.30 Closing and drinks

ÖNDER ALBAYRAK
Head of Transfer Pricing – Strategy & Operations at Sanofi

BAREND BROEN
Head of Tax and TP at Mambu and Erasmus School of Law

Monique van Herksen
Partner at Simmons & Simmons

CLIVE JIE-A-JOEN
Erasmus School of Law and Dutch Tax Authorities

LIU LU
Director of Tax at Prologis

PROF. RAYMOND LUJA
Maastricht University

ANTONIO RUSSO
Partner at Baker & McKenzie

SUHAS SAGAR
Baker McKenzie and The Hague
University of Applied Sciences

LUCIA SAHIN
TP Director at Deloitte

MANUEL DE LOS SANTOS
Acting Head of the Transfer Pricing
Unit at the OECD (Centre for Tax
Policy & Administration)

ISABEL VERLINDEN
Partner at PwC

JAN-PAUL VESTERING
Head of Group Transfer Pricing & Business Models at Nestlé

PHILIPPE PAUMIER
Founder at VECTOR TP

LETICIA ORTEGA DE CASO
Director of Transfer Pricing at PwC Spain

PROF. MAARTEN DE WILDE
Erasmus School of Law and Director at PwC

Prof. Peter Kavelaars

Seminar Director
Peter Kavelaars is Professor on Economics of Taxation at the Erasmus School of Economics and chairman of EFS. He was partner at Deloitte up to 2019. He is editor at MBB, NLF and some other fiscal journals and also on the staff at WFR, BNB and some other journals on taxation.

Clive Jie-A-Joen

Seminar Coordinator
Clive Jie-A-Joen is a transfer pricing professional with more than two decades of experience. He lectures transfer pricing to Bachelor and Master students at the Erasmus School of Law and Erasmus School of Economics. Clive also works at the Dutch Tax Authorities as a Transfer Pricing Specialist. Clive holds a PhD degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Master of Science degree in Business Valuation from the TiasNimbas Business School. He has published more than 70 technical articles. Clive is also a member of Transfer Pricing Economists for Development and a board member of the TP section of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors. He is recognized as leader in TP in Legal Media’s Transfer Pricing Guide and rated as highly regarded in World TP.

Barend Broen

Seminar Coordinator
Barend Broen is an international tax and TP professional with almost two decades of experience. Barend spent most of his career as inhouse tax and transfer pricing specialist with multiple multinational companies (Shell, Unilever, ABN AMRO) and currently works as Head of Tax and TP at Mambu. He also coordinates the transfer pricing Master course at the Erasmus School of Law and lectures Transfer Pricing at multiple institutions. He holds a Master of Science degree in Fiscal Economics and a Master of Law degree in Financial Law.

Dates and Times
From Wednesday 12 April (09.00 hrs) to Friday 14 April (16.00 hrs)  2023.

Venue
The seminar will be held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam campus, Woudestein.

EFS, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bayle Building, J5-29
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Accommodation
Hotel accommodation close to the Erasmus University Rotterdam campus is available for all participants

Fee
€ 2,650 (including all seminar materials and meals and hotel accommodation for Wednesday and Thursday night).

Language
The seminar will be in the English.

Target Group
EFS is looking forward to welcoming top-level (international) tax and / or transfer pricing specialists (at least 5 years of relevant experience) who wish to discuss recent and future transfer pricing and to network with peers from the following backgrounds:

  • Tax / TP professionals at Multinationals ((senior)managers, directors and VPs)
  • Tax / TP advisory services ((senior)managers, directors and partners)
  • Tax authorities, government bodies and international organisations (e.g., OECD, EC)
  • Academia (PhD researchers, assistant / associate / professors)
  • Legal practice (associates and partners)
  • Judicial authorities (judges at courts of first instance or higher / supreme courts)

Group size
As the group will comprise a maximum of 25 participants, you can be assured of optimal and active participation.

Disclaimer
EFS reserves the right to change the policy, programme, fees and any other items referred to in this brochure.

Accreditation / Continuing professional development
The programme is accredited and you will therefore be eligible for continuing professional development (‘Permanent Education’) points in line with the rules applied by your own professional organisation. This programme comprises 18 hours of tax-related study, based on the professional development required by the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers. You can find more information about this on the EFS website and on the website of your professional organisation.

Certificate
All participants will receive a certificate of attendance issued by EFS, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Contact / To apply
For more information, please contact:

Clive Jie-A-Joen
Seminar Coordinator
jieajoen@ese.eur.nl
+31 (0)6 82 53 17 88
www.eur.nl/efs		 Barend Broen
Seminar Coordinator
broen@law.eur.nl
+31 (0)6 21 68 50 46
www.eur.nl/efs

Registrations closed!

Please use this application form to apply for the Top-Level Seminar ‘Transfer Pricing’.

You can click on the fillable form fields to fill in the form digitally. Once completed, please send your application form by mail to the address specified therein, or e-mail it to tlstp@erasmusfiscalstudies.nl.

For more information

Clive Jie-A-Joen
Seminar Coordinator
+31 (0)6 82 53 17 88
jieajoen@ese.eur.nl

Barend Broen
Seminar Coordinator
+31 (0)6 21 68 50 46
broen@law.eur.nl

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