New regional indirect tax director for Deloitte

[private]Koen Dewilde has been head of the indirect taxes team at Deloitte’s Hungarian tax department since the end of last November. He has recently been appointed a director with a brief to supervise the entire indirect taxes division in the Pannon-Adria cluster, comprising Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia.

Dewilde started his career at the Belgian tax authority where he worked as director of the indirect taxes department. Later, he made a career at Arthur Andersen where he spent five years. He has been working in Deloitte’s Belgian office since 2002 managing clients in the fields of tourism and real estates, as well as multinationals and public institutions.

He joined the Slovakian Deloitte office in 2004 where he helped setting up the indirect taxes team, which achieved excellent results under his direction. Dewilde is Central Europe’s well-renowned expert in his field.

He is 38 years old and fluent in English, Dutch and French with a good command of German and Spanish and basic Slovak skills.

Deloitte Central Europe is a regional organisation of entities organised under the umbrella of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, the member firm in Central Europe of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Services are provided by the subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, which are separate and independent legal entities. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited are among the region’s leading professional services firms, providing services through more than 4000 people in more than 30 offices in 17 countries.

In Hungary, the services are provided by Deloitte Auditing and Consulting Limited (Deloitte Ltd.) and Deloitte Advisory and Management Consulting Privite Limited Company (Deloitte Co. Ltd.), jointly referred to as “Deloitte Hungary”, which are affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited. Deloitte Hungary is one of the leading professional services organizations in the country providing services in five professional areas – audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk services and financial advisory services – through more over 400 national and specialized expatriate professionals.[/private]