[SMULA] Primer Series: What Lawyers Need to Know about Taxes 2021

This Primer Seminar series will aim to provide legal practitioners with a solid and practical grasp of the tax fundamentals necessary for success in the digital economy. Taught by leading tax practitioners, the series will include real time case studies addressing both the domestic and international perspectives.

The series will cover the following topics:

• Basic understanding of the tax concepts that form the fundamental principles of taxation of the traditional economy;
• Explanation why these concepts cannot (always) be equally applied to the digital economy;
• Solutions that have been proposed/designed at a domestic, regional and global level;
• What to be expected in the next 12 months, 3 and 5 years;
• Why and how this is relevant for your practice.

SPEAKERS

Barbara Voskamp

Barbara is a Dutch qualified (tax) lawyer, she earned her LL.M. at the University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is admitted to the Amsterdam Bar, has a post doc tax degree, she is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors (NOB) and the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

She has worked as a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore since 2006. Barbara focuses on the corporate and tax aspects of cross border investments. She serves as tax lawyer to a wide range of clients varying from multinational public companies to medium size multinationals. She has extensive experience with a variety of international tax issues, including finance and acquisition structures.

Vikna Rajah

Vikna Rajah is recognised as a leading tax lawyer in Singapore. He is praised in the legal directories as being an “experienced litigator” with “extensive tax knowledge”, who is “an extremely intelligent man” and is “excellent to work with”. He has also been described as a person who combines “very deep technical expertise with acute commercial acumen’, while ‘carefully listening to his clients and putting himself in their shoes”.

Vikna, who also has a degree in accountancy, was recently ranked ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ in tax by Asialaw Profiles 2020. He has also been recognised as “Highly Regarded” in “tax controversy” by World Tax in both 2019 and 2020. Further, he has consistently been ranked ‘Leading Individual’ in tax by The Legal 500 every year since 2018. In 2017, he led the tax practice to clinch Singapore’s Tax Disputes and Litigation Firm of the Year (Asia Awards, International Tax Review 2017). Aside from being recognised by the Singapore Business Review 2015 as one of Singapore’s Top 40 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under, Vikna was also one of Prestige Singapore’s 40 Under 40 (2017), being heralded as one of the “movers and shakers and the dream makers to watch”.
 

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