Anthony Tam Senior Advisor, Tax Advisory Services
Qualifications
- Master of Business Administration, University of Toronto, Canada
- Bachelor of Engineering & Management, McMaster University, Canada
- Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountant, Ontario, Canada
- Fellow member of Hong Kong Certified Public Accountants
Background
Anthony has more than 30 years of professional experience in international taxation with proven track record in international taxation as well as Hong Kong and China tax, with a specialization in transfer pricing. He also leads the field audit / tax investigation team in Hong Kong offices of Forvis Mazars. He currently is the leader of Mazars Asia transfer pricing practice. He had supervised an Unilateral Advanced Pricing Agreement (“APA”) in Australia.
Prior to joining Forvis Mazars, Anthony was the Deputy Tax Managing Partner of one of the Big 4’s Southern China tax practice. He has an extensive experience in IPO projects in the Asian Pacific region (including listing in Hong Kong and Singapore) as well as in transfer pricing in China (he was the advisor to two Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (“BAPA”)) between China and Japan.
He received his post-graduate education in Ontario, Canada. As a tax specialist, Anthony has been involved in teaching. While he was a tax partner of the Canadian practice of the Big 4 firm, he taught part-time in taxation at University of Toronto. He is one of the three course directors of the Advanced Diploma in Taxation offered by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (“HKICPA”), which covers Hong Kong, China as well as international taxation. He is a facilitator in the China tax course offered by the Tax Academy of Singapore for the last ten years.
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- Hong Kong budget
- May 2013 - New tax treaty between the Netherlands and China
- OECD tackles Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
- Nov. 2013 - Detailed implementation rules for filing of exemption on VAT-able cross-border services in Shanghai
- Dec. 2013 - Detailed implementation rules for filing of exemption on VAT-able cross-border services in Beijing
- Dec. 2013 - Further expansion of scope of the PRC value added tax (“VAT”) reform
- 2015 Mazars International Tax Conference Closed with Great Success
- April 2016 - The Final Stage of the B2V Reform – Are you ready?
- "Putting a stop to BEPS" - A+ Magazine (July 2015)
- September 2018 - The PRC Law on Individual Income Tax (“IIT”) Amendments Approved
- February 2019 - Tax Relief for Small and Micro Enterprises
- February 2019 - Tax Relief for Small and Micro Enterprises
- January 2019 - Country-by-Country Reporting in Hong Kong
- March 2019 - VAT rates are falling from 1 April 2019
- April 2019 - The VAT Reform and Its Impact
- April 2019 - More Interpretations on Individual Income Tax for Expatriates
- May 2019 - China Adopts E-commerce Law – Its Tax Implications
- July 2019 – Mauritius: An Investment Gateway to Africa for Chinese Companies
- July 2019 - Economic Substance in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the BVI – Understanding the Requirements
- Hong Kong tax news
- New tax Partner at Mazars Greater China
- "2012-2013 PRC tax updates" seminar
- CBBC China Outbound Delegation Visit to the China International Fair for Investment and Trade in Xiamen
- Erik Stroeve interviewed by China Daily on China's signature of the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters
- Anthony Tam interviewed by George Russell on tax issues
- June 2014 - New China-UK tax treaty enters into force
- Global mobility alert
- Apr. 2014 - New tax treaty between China and France signed in 2013
- September 2014 - SAT initiates the anti-avoidance review of payments to overseas
- January 2015 - Easing of tax treatment in corporate restructuring activities in China
- Trust Services brochures
- February 2015 - Fine-Tuning of rules on non-resident indirect transfer by SAT
- February 2015 - China's major policy for overseas international taxation
- April 2015 - Mainland and the HK SAR signed the fourth protocol to the arrangement for avoidance of double taxation
- April 2015 - China Making further scrutiny on payments to overseas related parties
- Anthony Tam interviewed by SCMP on VAT reform
- OECD BEPS - The 2015 Final Reports and the next step
- “Implementation measures of special tax adjustments” released by SAT for public consultation
- Anthony Tam published "Why Hong Kong's tax system needs to be updated" in the March 2016 issue of A+ magazine
- January 2016 - Interim Tax Measures for Court-Free Amalgamation
- September 2017 - A Recent Individual Income Tax Case Relating To Expatriates In China
- February 2017 - The new Ad Valorem Duty (“AVD”)
- March 2017 - New Tax Regime for Aircraft Leasing Market
- July 2017 - Hong Kong Becoming a Signatory to the Multilateral Instrument
- August 2017 - Hong Kong Releases Consultation Report on BEPS Legislation
- March 2020 - An Interim Review of the Economic Substance Rules in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the BVI
- January 2021 - Changes are around the corner: the BEPS 2.0 Pillar 1 update
- January 2021 - Changes are around the corner: the BEPS 2.0 Pillar 1 update
- November 2014 - Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect Programme
- September 2014 -Tax information exchange agreements between Hong Kong and 6 Nordic countries
- October 2014 - Automatic exchange of financial account information in tax matters
- December 2014 - XXX
- Mazars submits its proposals for the 2015 / 2016 Hong Kong budget
- March 2015 - Court of final appeal ruled that taxpayer's right should be protected under the six-year limitation
- April 2015 - Hong Kong proposes to extend offshore funds tax exemption to private equity
- May 2015 - Comprehensive Double Taxation Agreements with South Africa and United Arab Emirates
- October 2015 - Taxability of License Fees Under Deeming Provision
- December 2015 - Hong Kong Proposes To Provide Tax Incentives for Corporate Treasury Centres
- Hong Kong Budget 2016 / 2017