Nadine Bassil

Partner in the VAT team, PwC

Nadine is a Partner in the VAT team and has over 16 years of tax consulting expertise with various governments. She is significantly involved in tax implementation and tax reform projects in the Middle East region. Whilst in the UAE, Nadine has been involved in major tax design, reform, implementation projects across the Middle East region, preparing studies, defining tax policies, and revising and drafting tax laws in Arabic, English and French (direct and indirect taxes). More recently, Nadine acted as a SME on a large scale tax reform project in a North African Country. Nadine also contributed to the development of a study on the collection and revenue sharing mechanism of customs duties for a Customs Union.

Prior to coming to the UAE in October 2007, Nadine was a legal advisor at the Ministry of Finance in Lebanon where she performed work for the Tax Reform Project within the United Nations Development Program (UNDP): Nadine acted as an SME when drafting new tax laws and regulations and contributed to the discussions with the parliamentary commissions in particular in relation to the VAT (ratified in 2001), Global Income Tax, and the Tax Procedure Code (ratified in 2008) and the salaries and wages reform project. Nadine also prepared and lead seminars, training and workshops for auditors about the new policies and laws.

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