Philipp Besson

Dr. Philipp Besson has over 20 years of experience in Value Added Tax (VAT) and Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) of global financial services groups, the conception and implementation of (cross-border) input tax documentation and optimization systems for financial service providers, the execution and implementation of tax compliance management systems (Tax CMS) and the re-organization of processes and systems. He has also extensive experience in the area of legal issues, processes and tax compliance for Withholding taxes, and provides comprehensive Advisory of global mobility tax issues (including German wage withholding and income taxes)

Furthermore, Dr. Philipp Besson has been member of various working groups of GDV, BdB, Insurers Europe (IE) for many years, and has been acting as expert of the German insurance industry in legislative reforms on national and EU level

In 2016 - 2018 he intervened as observer for the insurance industry of the VAT Expert Group of the European Commission