The consequences flowing from employing expatriates to work in your Australian operations

Andrew Fisher

Andrew is a partner in Deloitte's Pricing and Economics Group. After many years as a corporate tax practitioner Andrew began specialising in transfer pricing issues in 1994. In 1997 Andrew transferred to the Los Angeles office of Deloitte & Touche, where he spent approximately three years as part of the US transfer pricing team. During this period Andrew's work focused on examination of the steps in the value chain contributing to the total income of a business and structuring intercompany arrangements to appropriately reward the participants while managing the incidence of taxation. Andrew returned to the Australian practice in August 2000. Since then he has been involved in assisting clients with setting and documenting arm's length prices and advising on audit settlements, Mutual Agreement Proceedings and APAs with particular emphasis on the technology and consumer products sectors. - Current at 22 September 2005