Richard Sciacca, PhD., Director, Deloitte Tax LLP Knowledge Congress’s Emerging Issues: Global Transfer Pricing and Advance Pricing Agreements Speaker

New York, NY, May 08, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, proudly announces that Richard Sciacca, PhD., Director, Deloitte Tax LLP, Washington National Tax-Global Transfer Pricing, will present at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast, Emerging Issues: Global Transfer Pricing and Advance Pricing Agreements. This webcast will be held on Tuesday, May 30, 2013 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm (ET).
For further details, please visit: http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2013_Global_Transfer_Pricing.html

About Richard Sciacca, PhD.

Dr. Richard Sciacca is Director and Senior Economics Advisor for Deloitte Tax’s National Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) and Competent Authority (CA) Group. Dr. Sciacca is responsible for the development and economic analysis of intercompany pricing for multinational companies in the APA and CA context. Dr. Sciacca’s numerous on-going working relationships with APA and CA professionals are called upon in helping to design, implement, and expeditiously resolve APA and CA cases. Dr. Sciacca has been working full time on transfer pricing issues for the past 20 years, and has specialized in APAs for the past seven years. His project experience includes over 75 APAs.

About Deloitte Tax LLP’s Washington National Tax practice
Deloitte Tax’s Washington National Tax office is home to many of the nation’s leading tax professionals. The team includes former high-ranking treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials, congressional staff, state officials, and other professionals with considerable private sector and industry experience and backgrounds in the tax, legal, legislative, economic, and accounting fields. This experience and knowledge positions the Washington National Tax practice to be able to identify and analyse potential opportunities, respond proactively to changes in the tax environment, and assist clients with executing sustainable solutions.

About Deloitte Tax LLP’s Global Transfer Pricing practice
Deloitte’s transfer pricing professionals apply in-depth knowledge and experience to help 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 help you navigate the transfer pricing environment in the U.S. and globally. Deloitte’s global transfer pricing practice specializes in 15 industries, their services include:

- Advance Pricing Agreement Inbound
- Global Documentation
- Strategic Transfer Pricing Review
- Controversy Inbound
- Controversy Outbound
- U.S. & India Advance Pricing Agreement
- Business Model Optimization (BMO)
- Intellectual Property Tax Planning Services

To learn how you can win in a changing world, please visit: www.deloitte.com/transferpricing.

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Event Synopsis:

Emerging Issues: Global Transfer Pricing and Advance Pricing Arrangement live webcast is a must attend webcast for professionals seeking to understand the fundamentals of Transfer Pricing and Advance Pricing Agreement and how it may apply to their company. The panel of key thought leaders and practitioners will discuss the following key issues:

-New Rules on Transfer Pricing and IRS enforcement
-Considerations before entering and Advance Pricing Agreement
-Advantages and Disadvantages of APAs
-Understanding New Cost-Sharing Regulations
-Penalties
-Best practices in resolving Transfer Pricing and Advance Pricing Agreement issues at both the global and local level

The program will be followed by a Q&A session in which the audience will be invited to ask the speakers questions live.

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

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