Jason Tan Jia Xin

Jason’s primary area of practice is income tax and customs litigation, trade remedy investigations, tax and customs investigations and trade facilitation.

He has been involved in many of the largest income tax and customs disputes before all levels of Court on major points of tax law. The disputes involve issues on transfer pricing, withholding tax, income recognition, capital allowance, reinvestment allowance, double taxation agreements, deductibility of expenditure, excise valuation and customs procedures.

Jason also represents a sizeable number of manufacturers in local and foreign trade remedy investigations such as anti-dumping, safeguard duties, countervailing duties and anti-circumvention investigations.

He is also particularly active on issues relating to excise duty valuation, import and export controls, customs compliance, international trade regulations, customs valuation, sales and services tax and customs penalties.

Jason is a regular speaker in the tax scene on issues relating to income tax and customs. Jason was recently recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 and is acknowledged as a “Future Star” in the Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific 2022 rankings. In the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022 rankings, Jason was also ranked as “Up and Coming” in the tax practice.