The Asia Tax Awards are back: Enter now for 2016
The revived Asia Tax Awards will feature categories for companies, firms and individuals.
The Asia Tax Awards are back!
More than five years after they last took place in November 2010, the Asia Tax Awards will be held once again on Thursday May 5 2016, following the Asia Tax Forum, at the Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore.
See coverage of previous Asia Tax Awards: 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Submissions are open now and close on Thursday February 25. Entry, which is free, is by submission only. The entry forms are hyperlinked below.
The firm awards will be presented in these categories:
- National tax, transferpricing, and litigation and disputes firms of the year in 16 jurisdictions: Australia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Myanmar; New Zealand; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; South Korea; Taiwan; Thailand and Vietnam
- Asia Tax Firm of the Year (no separate submission form – award will be judged according to the national submissions)
- Asia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year (no separate submission form – award will be judged according to the national submissions)
- Asia Tax Litigation and Disputes Firm of the Year (no separate submission form – award will be judged according to the national submissions)
- Asia IndirectTax Firm of the Year
- AsiaTax Transactions Firm of the Year
- Asia Tax PolicyFirm of the Year
- AsiaTax Compliance & Reporting Firm of the Year
- Asia TaxTechnology Firm of the Year
- AsiaTax Innovator of the Year
- GlobalExecutive Mobility Tax Team of the Year in Asia
- BestNewcomer (international tax practice (5 years since formation)
- US Corporate Tax Teamof the Year in Asia
- FATCA/ Withholding Tax Team of the Year in Asia
- International TaxFirm (with a tax practice) in Asia
The ceremony will include two awards for company tax departments:
To win they must compose a 500-word description of their objectives for the 2015 calendar year and how they were achieved, highlighting areas where the work done by the team made a significant impact on the overall goals of the company.
Individuals
The six individual awards cover:
- Editor’s Choice: recognising impact on tax in Asia in 2015
- AsiaTax Director of the Year
- AsiaTax Commissioner of the Year
- AsiaTax Litigation and Disputes Practice Leader of the Year
- Asia Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year
- AsiaTax Practice Leader of the Year
Please send all entries by email, using the forms hyperlinked here, to Ralph Cunningham, who is also your editorial contact for the awards.
Methodology
Between January and February 2016, companies, law firms, tax advisers, accountants and other tax service providers from these jurisdictions:
Australia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Myanmar; New Zealand; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; South Korea; Taiwan; Thailand and Vietnam
can submit three examples of their best work for consideration for the national tax, transfer pricing, and litigation and disputes awards.
The awards for Asia Tax Firm of the Year, Asia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year, Asia Tax Litigation and Disputes Firm of the Year, Asia Indirect Tax Firm of the Year and Best Newcomer (international tax practices of
There are separate submission forms for the regional awards covering indirect tax, tax transactions, US corporate tax, FATCA / withholding tax, tax compliance & reporting, global mobility services, innovation and tax technology.
The awards will be judged according to:
- Size (Not conclusive, though it does indicate what a tax team is capable of taking on)
- Innovation (Did the advice the firm gave show something more than the straightforward answer that is commonly used?)
- Complexity (Did the matter address tax issues that were out of the ordinary and what ingenuity did the firm show to solve them?)
- Impact (What impact did the advice have on the taxpayer? For example, did it help them take over their biggest rival? Issue equity and debt in a particular market for the first time? Win an unprecedented judgement in court?
