Tax Advisers - Deloitte

United States
Steven D Harris
KPMG
345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154-0102
US
Tel: (1) 212 872 6718 (NY); (1) 202 533 3110 (DC);
(1) 917) 406 4425 (mobile)
Fax: (1) 212 872 5576
Email: sdharris@kpmg.com
Website: www.kpmg.com
Steve Harris heads KPMG’s transfer-pricing practice for the eastern US, as well as the
firm’s global transfer pricing resolution (GTPR) practice. A key focus of Mr Harris’
practice is to assist clients in identifying areas of potential transfer-pricing exposure on
a global basis and identifying and implementing strategies to manage such transferpricing
risk.
Mr Harris provides strategic advice in transfer pricing planning, documentation and
controversy resolution situations. His current clients represent a vast cross-section of
multinational businesses, including companies in the consumer goods, industrial
machinery, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, automotive, electronics, semiconductor
and technology sectors. He actively manages complex cases involving difficult substantive
and procedural issues through the APA and competent authority processes, resulting in
elimination of double taxation.
Mr Harris came to KPMG from the IRS APA programme, where he served as branch
chief and acting director. During his tenure, he also served as the APA coordinator for
Canadian and Japanese cases. While with the IRS, Mr Harris established IRS policy on
substantive transfer-pricing matters and managed a multidisciplinary staff of attorneys,
accountants and economists. He participated in numerous bilateral APA discussions and
negotiations with tax authorities around the world to resolve transfer-pricing disputes. He
joined the IRS in 1990 as an attorney with the IRS’s Office of Assistant Chief Counsel
(disclosure litigation), before joining the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel
(international) and the APA programme in 1994.
Mr Harris is a frequent global speaker and writer on transfer-pricing matters, and since
2000, he has consistently been selected by International Tax Review as a leading tax and
transfer-pricing adviser. He is a member of the American Bar Association tax section’s
Transfer Pricing Committee and the International Fiscal Association (IFA).
During his career, Mr Harris has been an attorney in private practice, an Appalachianbased
oil field entrepreneur, a manager for a Texas-based multinational petroleum
producer, and a senior state energy official in Ohio and Kansas.
Mr Harris earned his JD degree and his LLM degree in taxation at Capital University in
Columbus, Ohio. He received a BA degree from Bowling Green State University, and
undertook additional studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
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