Raja Kumaran’s Profile – Speaker for “GST is coming: What you doing?”

 

RAJA KUMARAN

Executive Director

PricewaterhouseCoopers Taxation Services Sdn. Bhd.

Tel: +(603) 2173 1701

Email: raja.kumaran@my.pwc.com

 

Raja has 34 years of indirect taxation experience having previously served as a senior officer with the Customs Department.

He was part of the MOF/Customs Sales and Services Tax (SST) team responsible for drafting the SST law in early 90s.

He was also part of the delegation which visited the UK, Netherlands and Singapore to study issues on the implementation of GST/VAT in those countries. 

Raja has extensive knowledge on customs administration, import/export procedures, classifications, valuation, licensing, compliance and is well versed with the Customs Act, Excise Act, Service Tax Act, Sales Tax Act, the Countervailing and Anti Dumping Act, the ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements (PTA) and the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme.

He has worked with local and multinational clients from various industries including gaming, automotive, telecommunications, manufacturing, trading, property development, oil and gas and information technology.

In addition, he is a key GST adviser to a financial services regulatory authority.

Raja is currently the Convener of the Trade Facilitation Sub-Committee for the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI).  

 

 

 

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