ROY LIM

Director of Tax and Advisory

E-mail: roylim@pkfsingapore.com
Direct: (+65) 6500 9359

Roy started his career with Arthur Andersen in 1993 and left as a tax manager after 9 years. He spent the next 4 years leading the tax department of Sembcorp Industries Ltd, a Singapore based public listed conglomerate in the utilities and marine services industries. Roy went on to focus on transfer pricing for the Lenovo global group of companies at Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd. In his most recent job, he was global tax director, responsible for direct tax compliance and transfer pricing for the Avago Group of companies.

During his stint at Sembcorp, Roy was instrumental in developing and implementing strategies to monetarise more than S$600million of tax losses through corporate reorganization, group tax relief and dividend distribution.  He was also responsible for setting up the holding company structure for Sembcorp to invest into Fujairah and achieving an effective tax rate of 3%.  He set up the processes to analyse, track and document intercompany transfer pricing for Lenovo and Avago.  In addition, he has worked with the business teams in Lenovo and Avago to manage tax aspects of insourcing and outsourcing of business operations.

Having gained tax experience both as an external tax consultant and in-house tax practitioner, Roy is able to offer practical tax advice that considers both direct and indirect tax implications while taking into account business operating conditions and requirements.

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