Japanese Webcast: U.S. Tax and BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two Updates

Takayuki is responsible for assisting mid- to large-size Japanese clients in United States with various inbound tax issues. Takayuki joined the firm in 2004 and since then he has been assisting Japanese clients in the Western United States. He worked at KPMG Tax Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) from 2011 through 2013 and assisted Japanese companies with various outbound M&A projects. Takayuki has extensive experience in tax compliance for multinational and commercial enterprises, and his background encompasses a wide range of general business and tax matters, including accounting methods and consolidations.

Hiroshi is a qualified Japanese tax accountant (Zeirishi) with over 11 years of tax experience in KPMG Tax Tokyo. He began his tax career in the Japanese domestic tax department in KPMG Tax Tokyo in 2006 and moved to the M&A international tax department in KPMG Tax Tokyo in 2010. After six years of experience in the M&A international tax department, he joined the KPMG Silicon Valley office in 2017. Hiroshi has extensive experience in tax compliance and tax advisory for Japanese clients, and his background encompasses a wide range of general business and tax matters, including accounting methods and consolidations.

Since joining KPMG in 1997, Michio has been providing tax compliance and consulting services to numerous Japanese clients and has represented many Japanese clients before the IRS and various state authorities. Michio is responsible for a broad range of Japanese-owned clients doing business in the United States as single entities or in joint venture, and has extensive experience with a wide range of complex tax matters relating to his clients’ businesses. Michio’s current and past clients include leaders in the pharmaceutical, telecommunication, global manufacturing, oil & gas, and financial services industries. He has advised on many transactions and provided both tax due diligence and tax structuring advice in several industries. Michio is a frequent speaker at seminars on various tax issues affecting Japanese-owned companies doing business in the United States and is a coauthor of KPMG’s Q&A U.S. Tax Handbook. He holds a BA degree from Aoyama Gakuin University, a BA degree from the University of Kansas, and a Master of Accounting & Information Systems degree from the University of Kansas. Michio is a Certified Public Accountant in Kansas.

Jun is a Tax partner at KPMG Tax Corporation and has approximately 19 years of experience in providing tax compliance and advisory services related to international taxation, corporate taxation, and M&A transactions for domestic and foreign corporations, including technology and gaming companies, securities companies, banks, insurance companies, investment advisory firms, and real estate funds. Of his 19 years in KPMG, Jun spent four years in the KPMG Chicago office where he focused on providing U.S. tax compliance and advisory services to privately owned U.S. companies. Since his return to Japan in 2014, he has been engaged in providing U.S. withholding tax advice and tax compliance services, in addition to Japanese tax services. Jun has been involved in a number of engagements in providing Japanese tax and U.S. tax advice to Japanese companies on their foreign investments and overseas expansion projects.