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Pacific Rim Tax Conference Agenda 2025

BEPS’ GloBE & International Taxation Cross Currents

Draft Agenda: subject to change
All sessions are held in the Sequoia Room unless noted.
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Continental Breakfast & Registration

8:30 – 8:40

Welcome and Introductions

  • Dr. Stewart Karlinsky; Executive Director; Pacific Tax Policy Institute
  • Grace Chu; Vice President, Co-Chair, Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group; Tax and Treasurer, Dolby Laboratories
  • President; TEI Silicon Valley

8:40 – 10:00
(Press Welcome)

Impact of Tax Legislation and Court Decisions on Corporate World including two AMTs, Transfer Pricing

  • Heather Schafroth; Associate; Caplin & Drysdale
  • Julia Ushakova-Stein; Partner; Fenwick

10:00 – 11:00
(Press Welcome)

BEPS Pillar 1 & DST

  • Quyen Huynh; Principal; KPMG
  • Aurelio Massimiano; Partner; Maisto e Associati

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:30

GloBE & BEPS Pillar 2 Current Developments: QDMTT, Top-Up Taxes (IIR & UTPR), Safe Harbors

  • Marcus Heyland; Principal; KPMG
  • Mike Knobler, Partner; Fenwick

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch and Keynote Speaker

  • John Peterson; Acting Head of Division International Cooperation & Tax Administration; OECD (invited)

2:00 – 3:00

M&A post-BEPS: Stock vs Asset vs Deemed Asset Acquisitions; Post-Acquisition IP; Materiality Disclosure and Impact on Different ETRs

  • Angela Evans; Tax Partner; EY
  • Gabe Gartner; Principal National Tax Services; PwC
  • Greg Hartker; Partner; Morgan Lewis
  • Gary Wilcox; Partner; Mayer Brown

3:00 – 4:30

Government Officials Administrative Round Table Discussion ICAP, Peer Review, Qualified Status, Dispute Resolution, Self-Certification, GAAR, Economic Substance

  • Elizabeth Stevens; Member; Caplin & Drysdale [Moderator]

4:30 – 5:30

Reception

   

Thursday, April 18, 2025

7:30 – 8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30

United Nations Perspectives

  • Michael Lennard; UN Chief of International Tax Cooperation & Trade (invited)

9:30 – 10:30

“Qualified Subsidy” What are permissible and what is not?

  • OECD & Government Officials

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15
(No Press)

Government Panel #1: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

1A: Japan

1B: India

  • Vinay Singh or Dhkaskar Goswmi; Competent Authority, India Revenue Service

12:15 – 1:45

Lunch and Keynote Speaker

  • Scott Levine; US Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary International Affairs (invited)

1:45 – 3:15
(No Press)

Government Panel #2: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

2A: Australia

  • Simone Bridges; Partner; Baker McKenzie
  • Hector Thompson or Rebecca Saint; Deputy Commissioner, Australian Tax Office (to be invited)
  • Mark Konza, Special Counsel; MinterEllison
  • John Stowell; Senior Vice President – Tax, Incentives & Int’l Financial Reporting; The Walt Disney Company

2B: South Korea

3:15 – 4:45
(No Press)

Government Panel #3: Breakout Sessions and Round Table Discussions

3A: Singapore

  • Michael Quigley; Tax Attorney [Moderator]
  • Linda Cheng; Group Tax Specialist, TP, MAP APA; Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (invited)

3B: Canada

  • Michael Jennings; Director, Competent Authority; Canada Revenue Agency
  • Jeffrey Shafer; Partner; Blakes