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Theresa Goh


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Deloitte Malaysia

Level 16, Menara LGB, 1 Jalan Wan Kadir

Taman Tun Dr Ismail

Kuala Lumpur, 60000

Malaysia

Tel: + 603 7610 8837

Email: tgoh@deloitte.com

Website: www.deloitte.com

Theresa Goh is the national transfer pricing leader of Deloitte Malaysia. Based in Kuala Lumpur, she has more than 20 years' experience in tax audit, investigation and advisory work for clients from various industries. She has been involved in several tax planning and consulting assignments in areas such as restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.

Theresa's experience in tax and transfer pricing controversy management includes preparation of strategy for litigations involving anti-avoidance issues and application of alternative transfer pricing methodologies during audits. She also assisted clients in concluding the first and all three APAs signed in Malaysia to date.

Theresa led Deloitte Malaysia to win the first ever Malaysia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year award bestowed by International Tax Review. She was voted as a leading tax adviser by International Tax Review in 2008/2009, and has been recognised as one of the world's leading transfer pricing advisers by Euromoney, consistently from 2009. Theresa was also voted as a leading female practitioner in international tax and transfer pricing in the Legal Media Group's 2012 Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law, and as a tax controversy leader in Malaysia by International Tax Review in 2013.

Theresa is a council member of both the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia. She is the chairwoman of MICPA's membership affairs committee, and a member of its tax and examination committees.

Theresa is a certified public accountant (Malaysia) and a chartered accountant. She is an approved tax agent under the Malaysian Income Tax Act, 1967. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, nationally and abroad, focusing on emerging transfer pricing and tax issues. She has participated in several operational dialogues with the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia and jointly presented an APA paper in Tokyo.

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