Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Belgium
Dirk Van Stappen
KPMG
Prins Boudewijnlaan 24d
Antwerpen (Kontich) 2550
Belgium
Tel: (32) 3 8211918
Fax: (32) 3 8253838
Email: dvanstappen@kpmg.com
Website: www.kpmg.com
Dirk Van Stappen is a tax partner with KPMG Tax & Legal Advisers in Belgium. He
joined KPMG in 1988 and has over 18 years of experience in advising multinational
companies on tax and transfer-pricing issues. Dirk heads KPMG’s Belgian transferpricing
practice (a member of KPMG’s Global Transfer Pricing Services).
Dirk has conducted various transfer-pricing assignments, ranging from preparing
European transfer-pricing documentation (including comparables searches), and
domestic and international transfer-pricing audit defence and competent authority
procedures to negotiating rulings and advance-pricing arrangements (APAs). Another
area of focus is strategic transfer-pricing planning (agent/commissionaire-structures,
contract or toll manufacturing arrangements, contract R&D arrangements, distribution
and service centres, intellectual property planning). Dirk has also excellent relations with
the Belgian central tax and APA authorities.
From an industry perspective, Dirk has a particular focus on the chemical,
pharmaceutical, electronics, industrial equipment, consumer products and food and
beverages industries.
Dirk was appointed in 2002 as one of the 10 European business experts of the EU Joint
Transfer Pricing Forum of the European Commission.
Since 1996, Dirk has been a visiting professor at the University of Antwerp in tax
management. He is a regular speaker on corporate income tax and transfer-pricing
issues. He has written numerous articles in both national and international professional
journals.
Dirk has been named in World Tax: The comprehensive guide to the world’s leading tax
firms (International Tax Review), Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer
Pricing Advisers and previous editions of Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Tax
Advisers.
Dirk holds a masters degree in applied economics from the University of Antwerp and
graduated in taxation from the Fiscale Hogeschool in Brussels. He is a certified tax
adviser and member of the Belgian Institute for Accountants and Tax Advisers (IAB).
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