BD former Dy PM to present papers at S Asian Tax Summit

Nasir Mahmood

Karachi—Jamal Uddin Ahmad, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh and other Prominent tax professionals from all the SAARC countries will read papers during the different sessions of two day South Asian Tax summit and will carry out in-depth analysis on the merits and demerits of the tax system prevailing in the SAARC countriesIncome Tax Bar Association Karachi (ITBAK) and Nutshell Forum will organize South Asian Tax Summit at a local hotel of Karachi on April 15 &16, 2008.
Theme of this summit is Regional Cooperation for Economic Development: Vision 2020.During two day South Asian Tax Summit, Dr. Anura Ekanayake (Deputy Vice Chairman, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce & Industry & Director, Unilever Sri Lanka Limited), Dinesh Kanabar (Executive Director, Tax & Regulatory Sevices, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, India) Prof. Lakshman Watawala (President, Society of Certified Management Accountants & Former Chairman, Board of Investment, Sri Lanka), Sunil H. Talati (President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), Farooq M. Ladha (Head of Tax Services Ernst & Young, Middle East) N. R. Gajendran (Chairman, International Fiscal Association, Sri Lanka & Alternate Chairman, Taxation Committee, ICAS), Sunil Goyal (Former President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & South Asian Federation of Accountants) will present paper on vital tax related issues of the region.
In a joint statement about South Asian Tax Summit 2008 Muhammad Azfar Ahsan (Global CEO, Nutshell Forum), Abdul Qadir Memon (President, ITBAK) and S. M. Shabbar Zaidi (President, SAFA) said “We are appreciative of all the speakers who will be coming to Pakistan for this conference. We are optimistic that the two days South Asian Summit will provide us a platform to restructure the regional tax system.
To strengthen the regional system, we will also try to organize this summit in other countries of the region.”