Tom Lickess

Tom has more than 25 years EMEA and APAC Corporate International senior tax leadership experience, building & leading tax & accounting teams in professional services & large multinational groups.

Tom is the head of the Global International Accounting & Tax Compliance product & Advisory Solutions practice at Vistra, leading teams responsible for the provision of timely & quality accounting & tax compliance & advice to high growth businesses and multinational corporations.

• Advised on and implemented global corporate entity restructure/reorganisation and rationalisation project - saving the global group thousands of dollars in pre and post tax efficiencies.
• Led a team that implemented global transfer pricing supply chain mapping and documentation process, including provision of Master File and Local Files, incorporating functional analysis and benchmarking.
• Negotiated the settlement of simultaneous, multi-jurisdictional tax authority reviews and audits for a large global corporate group—securing no penalties or interest and guaranteeing future certainty through an APA.
• Delivered technology-enabled global compliance services across accounting and tax, ensuring full and timely compliance throughout a global corporate group.

• Compliance management: Cross-border project management, IP management
• Corporate tax matters: APAs, Corporate taxes, Cost-sharing arrangements, Environmental, M&A, Restructuring, Technology, Transactions, Value chains
• Dispute resolution: Arbitration, Audit defence, Audit support, Controversy management, Dispute resolution, MAPs/ADRs, Pre-litigation
• Indirect tax: GST, Supply chainс, VAT
• Tax advisory: International tax advisory, Tax consulting, US inbound, US outbound
• Transfer pricing: Audit defence, Audit support, Business model optimisation, Business restructuring, Controversy management, Cross-border project management, Dispute resolution, International tax planning, IP management, TP risk management

• Accounting
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Food and beverage
• Gaming
• Healthcare
• Media
• Natural resources
• Pharmaceutical and life sciences
• Real estate
• Technology and telecommunications
• Tourism
• Transport

• BA Hons History, Durham University, UK, 1994
• FCA - ICAEW, ICAEW, 2002
  FCA - ACA, ACA, 2006
• MTax, University of Sydney, 2012