Following the success of its Advanced Diploma in International Taxation, the Malta Institute of Management (MIM) is holding a conference on International Taxation, to be held on Friday at the Radisson SAS Bay Point Resort, St Julian's. The conference has been promoted abroad, mainly in Italy and the UK and is the first event of its kind addressing international tax, with the intention of turning it into an annual event.
Speakers will include Professor Philip Baker, who joined Chambers in 1987, having been a full-time lecturer in law at London University since 1979. He has maintained some links with academia and is now Visiting Professorial Fellow in International Taxation at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
He specialises primarily in international aspects of taxation, which covers both corporate and private client matters. He also has a particular interest in taxation and the European Convention on Human Rights, on which he has been involved in training the general and special commissioners and members of VAT tribunals.
He is a member of the council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, of the Committee of the UK Branch of the International Fiscal Association, and the International Tax Sub-Committee of the Law Society.
In 1987 he was awarded an OBE for work with Chinese political refugees in the UK.
Ms Helen Ghezzo is international tax manager with De La Rue plc.
Mr Matthias Lefarth is head, Finance and Tax Department of the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized companies.
Mr William Morrison is senior VAT consultant of Accordance Ltd.
Dr Roberto Geraci is a graduate in Economics and Commerce, and auditor with Studio Dottori Commercialisti e Associati, admitted to practise before the Italian tax court. Throughout his career he has addressed various compliance issues with respect to EU directives and Italian legislative and tax matters. He has also worked in collaboration with various prominent accountancy and audit firms in Italy.
Other speakers at the conference will be Tonio Fenech, Parliamentary Secretary within the Finance Ministry, Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Frendo, Dr Robert Attard, visiting lecturer at the University of Malta, and Dr Juanita Brockdorff from KPMG - Malta.