Kuo Seng is the Business Tax Audit & Investigation (A&I) Leader at Deloitte Malaysia and has more than 30 years of experience in tax audits and back duty investigations. Kuo Seng’s experience in A&I controversy management includes providing tax advisory/consultancy and managing compliance work for local and multinational companies as well as high net-worth individual clients and prudential audit review for tax risk management purposes. With the Malaysian tax authorities' shift in becoming more engaged with taxpayers, he focuses on prospects, working closely to bring the tax authorities and taxpayers together for early engagement, settlement negotiations, facilitation and amicable resolution of disputes through the Dispute Resolution Proceeding at the local tax headquarters.
By applying his extensive experience in assisting clients, Kuo Seng’s approach is to take a respectful and educative methodology with the tax authorities, adhering to local practice and policies while meticulously protecting taxpayers’ rights and responsibilities at law. A Chartered Accountant and an approved tax agent under the Malaysian Income Tax Act, 1967, Kuo Seng is a market leader in tax appeals and a sought-after speaker at public forums on current tax issues.