Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United Kingdom
Erica Howard
KPMG
1 Puddle Dock
London EC4V 3PD
UK
Tel: (44) 20 7311 2549
Fax: (44) 20 7311 2850
Email: erica.howard@kpmg.co.uk
Website: www.kpmg.com
Erica is a partner in the KPMG LLP’s (UK firm) London-based global transfer pricing
group. After being recruited to the Inland Revenue in 1987 Erica trained as an inspector
of taxes and worked on a wide range of tax issues. In 1995 she joined the Inland
Revenue’s international division and spent three years working as part of its transferpricing
team.
While in the international division, Erica was involved in a number of transfer-pricing
investigations into large multi-national enterprises. She was also responsible for
advising network inspectors on transfer-pricing issues, dealing with treaty clearance
applications in respect of royalty payments to overseas associates, and writing and
presenting transfer-pricing training material.
Since her arrival at KPMG in 1998, Erica has provided a range of clients with transferpricing
tax audit advice as well as providing tax input into economic reviews undertaken
by the transfer-pricing group. Erica Howard has been involved in a wide range of
transfer-pricing assignments covering Inland Revenue inquiries, advance-pricing
agreements, and preparation of documents to support international intragroup pricing.
Ms Howard has also worked closely with clients who have licensed KPMG’s Interpreter
transfer pricing software. The industries in which Ms Howard has specific experience
include the financial sector, industrial product manufacturing and distribution and retail.
Her principal focus is on transfer pricing for financial sector clients. Erica is heading up
the KPMG in the UK group responsible for responding to the draft OECD papers on
the attribution of profits to permanent establishments.
Before embarking upon a career in tax, Erica worked as a research scientist for the
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
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