Register here for the ITR webinar on “Innovation for the New Normal: What’s Next for Tax Services in India and Southeast Asia?”‘

In a time of skills shortages, regime shifts and ongoing digital transformation, what can today’s tax teams do to anticipate change, challenges and risks?

Join Piyus Vallabh from Deloitte, Sunil Dhareshwar from Infosys Ltd and Karan Batra from Thomson Reuters who will provide their expertise on the following topics:

• The Great Resignation: Technology Can Fill the Tax Talent Gap
• In an environment of growing talent shortages and smaller teams managing multiple jurisdictions, our panel of experts discuss how content-driven technology can help businesses move away from core dependencies of people, as well as help existing teams manage their workloads more efficiently.
• How to manage growing tax complexity
• Tax teams in India and Southeast Asia continue to deal with ever-changing regulations, increased scrutiny from tax auditors, and increasing compliance and reporting requirements – regionally and internationally. Our panel of experts discuss how tax leaders can rethink their technology systems, data strategies and compliance processes to stay ahead of emerging and increasingly prevalent tax reporting requirements digital.
• How to Effectively Manage VAT and GST in ERP Environment
• Technology plays a vital role in the modern tax service, where it helps reduce indirect tax errors, overpayments and audit risks.

Our expert panel discusses the approaches taken by tax departments to manage various tax determination and compliance processes.

Karan Batra
Director – Strategic Accounts, APJ and Emerging Markets
Thomson Reuters
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Karan Batra is responsible for strategic accounts in Asia Pacific, Japan and Emerging Markets at Thomson Reuters. Karan is responsible for helping clients transform their operating models and achieve their future digital goals by leveraging content-driven solutions.

Karan spent the first eight years in the content, technology and operations organization at Reuters, then at Thomson Reuters with the key mandate to expand the existing global COE in strategic locations including India and India. Southeast Asia, supporting more than $3 billion in customer business and providing 25% savings in operating costs.

Piyus Vallabh
Consulting partner in tax management
Deloitte Singapore
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Based in Singapore, Piyus Vallabh is a tax management consulting partner at Deloitte Southeast Asia and leads the Deloitte Global Tax Center Asia (GTCA). He has over 20 years of experience providing corporate tax advisory and tax management services. He is a Chartered Accountant with the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, and holds a BCA and LLB from Victoria University of Wellington.

Piyus has significant experience leading tax technology projects in Asia Pacific, including advising on tax technology needs for clients and implementation. He also leads a number of regional tax compliance engagements with a particular focus on advising on operational tax transformation, technology and process improvement for tax departments.

Sunil Dhareshvar
SVP – Finance, Head – Corp Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Infrastructure & Global CFO (Consulting, BPM, Product & Platform business)
Infosys Ltd
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Sunil Kumar Dhareshwar is Senior Vice President of Finance at Infosys Ltd. He is responsible for global tax, corporate accounting, treasury and financial aspects of M&A transactions. He is also Global Chief Financial Officer for the Consulting, BPM, Product and Platform businesses and Global Head of Infrastructure, Facilities and Physical Security. Sunil previously worked with 21st Century Fox (formerly known as News Corporation).

In more than 20 years of professional experience, he has successfully concluded several pre-price agreements and resolved tax disputes through mutual agreement procedures.

Sunil is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a degree. He also trained at the National Defense Academy in Pune for a brief period before obtaining his chartered accountancy qualification. He is a speaker at national and international conferences/forums and is on the editorial board of ITR.

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