| Day 1 |
| 09.00 – 10.00 |
Registration
& Coffee |
| 10.00 – 10.15 |
Welcome to the conference |
| |
Devender Nath (President,
BMA)
Roy Rohatgi (Conference Director) |
| Session One |
| INTERNATIONAL
TAX PRINCIPLES |
| Chairman |
Sohrab Dastur, Senior
Advocate, India |
| 10.15 – 11.45 |
Special Speaker- Professor
Jacques Sasseville, Head of Tax Treaty Unit, Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development, France
Interpretation
of International Tax Treaties
(Presentation
& Questions)
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| 11.45– 12.15 |
Conference Chairman
Professor Klaus Vogel, University of Munich, Germany
Tax Treaty Interpretations - Some Current Issues
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|
| 12.15 – 12.45 |
Discussion and Questions
|
| 12.45 – 13.00 |
Session Chairman's Remarks
Vote of Thanks : Porus Kaka, Practising Tax Lawyer,
India |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
| Session Two |
| OVERSEAS TAX PLANNING |
| Chairman |
Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai
Associates, India |
| 14.00 – 14.40 |
Roger Wheeler, Chief Tax Officer,
General Motors Corporation,
United States
International Tax Planning Issues in a Large Multinational
Company
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| 14.40 – 15.20 |
Ludovic Verbist, Managing Director,
A.A.M.I.L. Ltd, Mauritius
Luxembourg as a Base
for International Tax Planning
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|
| 15.20 – 16.00 |
Shanker Iyer, Managing Partner,
Shanker Iyer & Company, Singapore
International Tax Planning under Singapore Domestic Law
and Treaties
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|
| 16.00 – 16.30 |
Discussion and Questions
Vote of Thanks : R K Chopra, Executive Director,
Bombay Management Association, India
|
| 16.30 – 17.00 |
Tea |
| 17.00 – 17.40 |
Uday Gujadhur, Association of
Offshore Management Companies, Mauritius
Mauritius
as a Base for International Mutual Funds
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|
| 17.40 – 18.45 |
Presentations on Mauritius Global Business
organized by the Financial Services Promotion Agency
in the presence of Hon. Sushil Khushiram, Minister
for Economic Development, Financial Services and Corporate Affairs,
Government of Mauritius |
| 18.45 – 22.00 |
Cocktails and Dinner (Sponsored
by the Financial Services Promotion Agency, Mauritius) |
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THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - 2003
December 6, 2003
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| Day 2 |
| 9.00 – 10.00 |
Special Session – Panel Discussion
Recent India-Mauritius Supreme Court
Ruling – Dinesh Kanabar
|
| 10.00– 10.30 |
Coffee |
Session Three
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS |
| Chairman |
Dinesh Kanabar, Partner, RSM
& Co., India |
| 10.30 – 11.10 |
David Partington, Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris (France)
Recent OECD Developments in International Taxation
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|
| 11.10 – 11.50 |
William Byrnes, Director, St.
Thomas University School of Law, United States
Information
Sharing and Tax Information Exchange Agreements in the United
States
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|
| 11.50 – 12.30 |
Rashmin Sanghvi, Partner, Rashmin
Sanghvi Associates, India.
Relevance of the
Vienna Convention on the Interpretation of Treaties in Taxation
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| 12.30 – 13.00 |
Discussion & Questions
Vote of Thanks : Mr. Sanjay Grover, Partner, Ernst
& Young Private Limited, India |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
Session Four
TAX TREATY INTERPRETATIONS |
| Chairman |
Vijay Mathur, Director General
– International Taxation, Government of India |
| 14.00 – 14.40 |
Mukesh Butani , Country Tax Partner,
Ernst & Young Private Limited, India
Tax
Treaty Interpretations in India
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| 14.40 – 15.20 |
Ronald Haigh, International Tax
Partner, Deloitte & Touche, United Kingdom
Tax
Treaty Interpretations in the United Kingdom
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| 15.20 – 16.00 |
Walter Raineri, Partner, Fenwick
& West, United States
Tax Treaty Interpretations
in the United States
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| 16.00 – 16.30 |
Discussion and Questions
Vote of Thanks: T P Ostwal, Partner, Ostwal,
Desai & Kothari, India
|
| 16.30 – 17.00 |
Tea |
| 17.00 – 18.30 |
Discussion - Domestic Law or International
Law - What should prevail in tax treaty interpretations?
A panel discussion chaired by the conference chairman, Professor
Klaus Vogel and led by the special speaker, Jacques
Sasseville, along with other conference speakers
|
| 18.30 – 18.45 |
Concluding Remarks - Roy Rohatgi
(Conference Director)
Vote of Thanks - Kewal Handa
(Vice President, BMA) |
| 19.00 – 21.00 |
Dinner (Sponsored by ITC
Grand Maratha Sheraton Hotel) |
