| Working experience and occupation |
Mr. Thanneermalai has been practicing tax since 1980 and is a pioneer in transfer pricing. He established Malaysia's first transfer pricing practice in 1996 in PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia.
He is known in the Malaysian tax fraternity for helping businesses manage their tax affairs and resolving tax related matters with various authorities. He has contributed to the development of tax laws in Malaysia in his capacity as the former President of the Chartered Taxation Institution of Malaysia and Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Malaysian Tax Research Foundation in the past.
He has over 40 years of experience in dealing with complex tax issues, resolving tax disputes as well as obtaining special permissions from various authorities including the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia, Royal Malaysian Customs Department, the Tax Policy Division of the Ministry of Finance, and other government agencies such as Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC).
He was a Senior Tax Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 22 years and Managing Director of Crowe Horwath KL Tax Sdn Bhd for 2 years. Currently, he is a licensed tax agent approved by the Ministry of Finance Malaysia under section 153 of Income Tax Act, 1967. He is currently the Board member and audit and risk committee chairman of the Private Pension Administrator Malaysia. |