Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United Kingdom
Ron Haigh
Deloitte
180 Strand
London WC2R 1BL
UK
Tel: (44) 20 7007 3783
Fax: (44) 20 7007 3430
Email: rhaigh@deloitte.co.uk
Website: www.deloitte.com
Ron Haigh is a partner in the London office international tax group of Deloitte &
Touche. He is also global director of the Deloitte & Touche international competent
authority practice and a member of each of the International Direct Taxes subcommittee
of the Confederation of British Industry, OECD’s Business and Industry
Advisory Committee and of the Confederation Fiscale Europeenne. Ron is also business
co-chair of OECD’s Transfer Pricing Experts group. He features both in Legal Media
Group’s 2001 and 2004 Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers and its 2002
Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers. He is a frequent speaker and published author
on international tax matters.
Before joining Deloitte & Touche in April 2001, Mr Haigh was the deputy director of
the Inland Revenue’s international division, responsible for all business tax areas with
an international dimension, including transfer pricing, international financial matters,
residence issues relating to the corporate sector, Treasury consents under Section 765
and the UK’s controlled foreign companies legislation. In this role, he was responsible
for introducing major changes to the transfer-pricing and CFC legislation contained
in the 1998 Finance Act and for the introduction in the 1999 Finance Act of the
domestic advanced-pricing agreement process.
During his years in the international division, Mr Haigh was the UK’s competent
authority for the purposes of its double-taxation agreements in the transfer-pricing area
and played a prominent role in the renegotiation of the UK’s double-taxation agreement
with the US. Additionally, until early 2001 and for eight years before that, he chaired the
OECD’s Working Party and its Steering Group on the Taxation of Multinational
Enterprises. This group was responsible for producing the 1995 document, Transfer
Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations and for the
discussion draft issued in February 2001 on the attribution of profits to permanent
establishments.
With a career spanning 40 years, including time with the Inland Revenue and private
practice, Mr Haigh has had over 24 years’ international tax experience at the highest
level. He now represents both UK and foreign-based multinational clients in
optimizing group structures, planning transactions with international implications,
advising on advance-pricing agreements, and in building and conducting defence
strategies, including ensuring adequate transfer-pricing documentation. He also
advises on handling government contacts and specific negotiations – in particular,
those between competent authorities under the mutual agreement procedure of
treaties and EU Arbitration Convention – and in lobbying for change.
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