Post Budget Review 2009

The Honourable Minister of Finance, YAB Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will present to the Dewan Rakyat the 2009 Budget Proposals on 29 August 2008. In conjunction with that, the ACCA Malaysia is organizing a series of Post Budget Review in various locations.  The objective of the Post Budget Review is to highlight and discuss the tax implications of the Budget Proposals. 

Course outline:

8.15am             Registration

9.00am             2009 Budget: Highlights and Tax implications

10.30am            Break

10.45am            2009 Budget: Highlights and Tax implications (cont’d)

12.30 pm           The End

Speaker’s Profile: Mr Chow Chee Yen

Chee Yen is a Fellow Member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), an Associate Member of CPA Australia, a Fellow Member of the Malaysian Institute of Taxation (FTII) and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (CA).

He is also a graduate of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) Examinations and successfully completed the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) conversion programme.

He is currently the Executive Director of Advent Tax Consultants Sdn Bhd and was an Associate Director of an international firm. In addition, he was also attached with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen Kuala Lumpur, specialising in corporate taxation. He has more than 17 years of tax experience and was involved in tax engagements concerning cross border transactions, tax due diligence review, restructuring schemes, corporate tax planning, group tax review and inbound investments.

Chee Yen’s expertise is in high demand and he is a prolific trainer/facilitator for tax workshops and seminars organized by MIA, MIT, ACCA, CPA Australia, the STAR newspaper and in-house training for both professional firms and corporations.  He is also a regular speaker in conferences organised in Hong Kong and Singapore.

In addition, he has been lecturing in various colleges and university in the Klang Valley for the past 14 years, specialising in taxation papers for professional examinations namely ACCA, MICPA, ICSA and MIT. He was also the Chief Examiner for a taxation paper of a professional examination bodies.

Chee Yen was also an editorial member of the Annual Budget Commentary and Tax Information Booklet jointly published by the professional bodies and has written books on Malaysian taxation for Commerce Clearing House (CCH).