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Research questionnaire

PART 1: World Tax 2018

Deadline for return of questionnaire: Friday, May 12 2017

This form is in two parts. The first part relates to World Tax 2018. The second concerns transfer pricing and relates to World Transfer Pricing 2018. If you have a transfer pricing practice in your firm, and wish to be considered for both, please fill out both sections of the form. Please note, due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to confirm receipt, but if you submit before the deadline your firm will definitely be considered for the directories.

Please note that any information given may be published except where indicated.

Firm name: / Country: / Philippines
Department:
Head of dept:
Telephone: / Email:

1. Personnel

How many professionals are in your practice?

Partners
Other fee earners
Indirect tax
Corporate tax
Tax disputes
Tax compliance/ tax accounting

Please give the names and details of any tax professionals who have joined your department since May 2016 (continue on a separate sheet if necessary).

Name / From (position) / Date hired

Please give the names and details of any tax professionals who have left your department since May 2016 (continue on a separate sheet if necessary).

Name / To (position) / Date left

2. Clients

All information in this section is for research purposes only and is NOT for publication.

Please give the name of five key clients that your firm has advised in the past two years. Please also provide us with contact information for each of these clients so we can contact them for independent market research (names and contact information will not be published).

Company:
Contact name:
Position:
Telephone:
Email:
OK to contact? [Y/N]
OK to mention this client in your firm’s entry in the directory? We will only do this with the permission of you and the client.

3. Recent work

All information in this section is for publication including client names if provided. Do not include any deals or client names you wish to keep confidential.

Please give the details of the most innovative transactions and other tax work (no more than three each for corporate tax, tax disputes and indirect tax) your tax practice has advised on since May 31 2016, which can be used for publication.

CORPORATE TAX / Deal 1 / Deal 2 / Deal 3
Brief description of matter:
Why was it innovative?
Party/parties advised:
Tax professionals from your firm involved:
Value (US$):
Date completed:
INDIRECT TAX / Deal 1 / Deal 2 / Deal 3
Brief description of matter:
Why was it innovative?
Party/parties advised:
Tax professionals from your firm involved:
Value (US$):
Date completed:
TAX DISPUTES / Deal 1 / Deal 2 / Deal 3
Brief description of matter:
Why was it innovative?
Party/parties advised:
Tax professionals from your firm involved:
Value (US$):
Date completed:

4. Summary

Please summarise any other details about your tax practice, such as a brief history (if the practice is new or has moved into new areas), role in tax policy development or influence in professional or industry organisations.

5. Rankings

These are the rankings of firms in the Philippines last year. Firms within the same tier are listed alphabetically. Have the tax practices of any of the firms in the rankings noticeably improved or declined? How? Would you suggest any other changes to the rankings? Why?

This section is confidential.

Tier / Firm / Should this firm be in a different tier? / If yes, which tier and why?
1 / Isla Lipana
Navarro Amper
RG Manabat & Co
SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co
2 / Baniqued & Baniqued
Quisumbing Torres
Salvador Llanillo & Bernardo, Taxand Philippines
Zambrano & Gruba Law Offices
3 / Punongbayan & Araullo
Du-Baladad and Associates - WTS

Are any firms missing from the rankings?

6. Practice area specialisation

For this year’s edition of World Tax, we are considering publishing additional rankings for certain practice areas in some jurisdictions.

Which firms have the strongest indirect tax practices? Write the names of as many firms as you like. You may include your own firm if you feel this is accurate.

Top-tier indirect tax firms:

Second-tier indirect tax firms:

Which firms have the strongest transactional tax practices? Write the names of as many firms as you like. You may include your own firm if you feel this is accurate.

Top-tier transactional tax firms:

Second-tier transactional tax firms:

Which firms have the strongest tax controversy practices? Write the names of as many firms as you like. You may include your own firm if you feel this is accurate.

Top-tier tax controversy firms:

Second-tier tax controversy firms:

Research questionnaire

PART 2: World Transfer Pricing 2018

Deadline for return of questionnaire: Friday, May 12 2017.

This form has been split into two parts. The first part relates to World Tax 2018. The second concerns transfer pricing and relates to World Transfer Pricing 2018. If you have a transfer pricing practice in your firm, and wish to be considered for both, please fill out both sections of the form. Please note, due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to confirm receipt, but if you submit before the deadline your firm will be considered for the directories.

Please note that any information given may be published except where indicated.

Firm name: / Country: / Philippines
Department:
Head of dept:
Telephone: / Email:

1. Personnel

How many transfer pricing professionals are in your practice?

Partners
Other fee earners

How many of them work in…

TP disputes
TP compliance

Please give the names and details of any transfer pricing professionals who have joined your department since May 2016 (continue on a separate sheet if necessary).

Name / From (position) / Date hired

Please give the names and details of any transfer pricing professionals who have left your department since May 2016 (continue on a separate sheet if necessary).

Name / To (position) / Date left

2. Clients

All information in this section is for research purposes only and is NOT for publication.

Company:
Contact name:
Position:
Telephone:
Email:
OK to contact? [Y/N]
OK to mention this client in your firm’s entry in the directory? We will only do this with the permission of you and the client.

3. Recent work

All information in this section is for publication including client names if provided. Do not include any deals or client names you wish to keep confidential.

Please give the details of the three most innovative transfer pricing matters your practice has advised on since May 2016, which can be used for publication.

Deal 1 / Deal 2 / Deal 3
Brief description of matter:
Why was it innovative?
Party/parties advised:
Tax professionals from your firm involved:
Value (US$):
Date completed:

4. Summary

Please summarise any other details about your transfer pricing practice, such as a brief history (if the practice is new or has moved into new areas), role in tax policy development or influence in professional or industry organisations, that you would like us to take into consideration.

5. Rankings

These are the rankings of firms in the Philippines last year. Firms within the same tier are listed alphabetically. Have the tax practices of any of the firms in the rankings noticeably improved or declined? How? Would you suggest any other changes to the rankings? Why?

This section is confidential.

Tier / Firm / Should this firm be in a different tier? / If yes, why?
1 / Isla Lipana
Navarro Amper
RG Manabat & Co
SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co
2 / Du-Baladad and Associates

Are there any firms missing from the rankings?

Recommend up to three individuals with specialist skills in the following areas (please do not include advisers from your own firm):

TP Disputes / Individual’s name / Firm/Chambers
1.
2.
3.
APA negotiation / Individual’s name / Firm
1.
2.
3.
Documentation project management / Individual’s name / Firm
1.
2.
3.

6.  Thank You!

Thank you for participating in the research forWorld Tax and World Transfer Pricing. The guide will be published in October, in hard copy and at www.itrworldtax.com and www.worldtransferpricing.com.
Should you have any further questions regarding the research of the guide then please contact:
Joseph Stanley-Smith, World Tax editor

+44 207 7798142

Advertising in World Tax and World Transfer Pricing is entirely separate from the editorial process, and only begins midway through the writing stage, once the rankings have been finalised.
For advertising options inWorld Taxplease contact:
Andrew Tappin, associate publisher

+44 (0) 20 7779 8661
For advertising options inWorld Transfer Pricingplease contact:
Brittney Raphael, online associate publisher

+44 (0) 20 7779 8325

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World Tax and World Transfer Pricing – research questionnaire