Dr. Arindam Mitra, Principal and Senior Economist, Transfer Pricing, Deloitte Tax LLP to Speak at KC’s Transfer Pricing Live Webcast

New York, NY, June 01, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Dr. Arindam Mitra, Principal and Senior Economist, Transfer Pricing, Deloitte Tax LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “Transfer Pricing.” This event is scheduled for June 13, 2012 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm (ET).

For further details, please visit:
http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2012_Transfer_Pricing.html

About Dr. Arindam Mitra
Dr. Arindam Mitra is a principal and a senior economist in the transfer pricing practice of Deloitte Tax LLP. He leads the Washington, DC-based transfer pricing team of Deloitte. Prior to relocating back to the United States in 2004, he co-led Deloitte’s Tokyo transfer pricing practice (2001–2004). He also served in Deloitte’s Sydney (as Lead Economist; 1998–2000), Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC offices over the last 14 years.

Dr. Mitra is primarily engaged in economic and financial analysis of transactions between related entities of a multinational enterprise for the determination of arm’s length prices, in valuation of intangible property, and in the measurement and benchmarking of risk-return trade-offs. He specializes in dealing with tax authorities on transfer pricing issues, including audits, competent authority negotiations and Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs). He has developed and negotiated pricing methodologies for over thirty APAs, mostly bilateral, involving the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada and China. He has been featured in Euromoney’s “Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers,” and selected by International Tax Review as a leading transfer pricing advisor in the United States, both for several years.

He advises companies across a wide spectrum of industries including pharmaceutical and medical equipment, automobile, technology, and branded consumer products in planning and documenting their transfer prices. He has successfully defended several clients in audits conducted by the tax authorities and has worked with attorneys from several leading U.S. law firms.

Dr. Mitra also advises clients on potential effects of proposed changes to tax legislation and on treasury risk management matters. While in Australia, he was an adjunct faculty member of the Australian Graduate School of Management teaching corporate finance and economics to MBA students and a member of the National Tax Liaison Group (on Transfer Pricing) of the Australian Tax Office. Dr. Mitra can be reached by email at amitra@deloitte.com

About Deloitte Tax LLP’s Transfer Pricing Practice
Global Transfer Pricing proactively addresses an increasingly complex area of global tax planning and tax compliance.

Global Transfer Pricing multinational organizations are operating in an environment of unprecedented complexity. The rising volume and variety of intercompany transactions and transfer pricing regulations, accompanied by increased enforcement activities worldwide, have made transfer pricing a leading risk management issue for global businesses.

The goal of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) member firms’ globally managed transfer pricing network is to help companies manage tax compliance risks by aligning practical transfer pricing solutions with their overall global business operations and objectives, assist with documentation to support their transfer pricing practices, and provide recommendations to resolve disputes efficiently. Deloitte has a well-earned reputation for quality and delivering results.

Deloitte’s transfer pricing professionals apply in-depth knowledge and experience to help you develop, refine and maintain an effective transfer pricing program. We understand the current focus of tax authorities, and we have the technical and practical experience and tools necessary to advise you in your efforts to navigate the increasingly complex transfer pricing environment in the United States and globally.

Euromoney’s “2012 Guide to the World's Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers” recognized DTTL member firms as having the greatest number of leading transfer pricing advisers. With 96 advisers selected it is the sixth consecutive time, spanning twelve years that Deloitte has come out on top in this leading guide.

Learn more about Deloitte’s Transfer Pricing practice. For more information, please contact: twolosoff@deloitte.com.

Event Synopsis:

Transfer pricing remains a complex subject matter especially in the global economic environment. The Knowledge Congress assembled a panel of distinguished speakers to provide in-depth analysis of the critical elements of transfer pricing including:

- Operational Challenges
- Risk of Double Taxation
- Documentation
- Treatment of Intangibles
- Cost-Sharing Regulations
- Service Regulations
- Comparability Test and Profit-Split Method
- Different Transfer Pricing Rules and Enforcement Efforts in Other Countries
- And Much More

This two-hour webcast session is a “must attend” for tax specialists, tax executives, CPAs, multinational executives, and other professionals with transfer pricing functions.

About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series

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