Our people

 Ton Smit (1965) is a tax lawyer, who graduated at University of Groningen. He started his career in the general tax practice of Deloitte & Touche where he later specialised in international tax. In 1995 he switched to Arthur Andersen where he further specialised on international tax - amongst his clients were mainly large US and UK corporations - but also started to develop his interest for financial products. Over the years with Andersen he was involved with and initiated various structured finance and corporate finance projects, among which IPO’s, the development and establishment of investment funds, cross border leases, enhanced tax sparing structures and asset backed securitisations, etc. Ton is furthermore experienced in cross border mergers and acquisitions, giving fiscal support to large scale real estate projects, providing tax training. He founded TCI in 2000. 

 e-mail: Ton.Smit@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010470.

 Edwin Veele (1969) is a tax lawyer, who graduated at Leiden University. He started his career with Deloitte & Touche in the international tax practice. In early 1997 he switched to Staal Bankiers, a Dutch based bank, where he not only initiated financial products but also advised the corporate and individual clients of the bank. After Staal Bankiers, late 1998, he joined Arthur Andersen, where he practiced in all fields of corporate tax mainly for US and UK clients, with emphasis on reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and financial services. Within Andersen, he was a member of the M&A group. Edwin has a broad experience in advising on and supporting (cross border) reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, providing due diligence investigations, advising on and developing financial products and structures and supporting foreign investors in setting up business in The Netherlands or other EU countries. He joined TCI in 2001.

e-mail: Edwin.Veele@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010472.

 Fariq Ishaak (1968) graduated in1997 as an Economist specialized in Tax Law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.  In 1996 he started his career in the international tax practice of Arthur Andersen in Rotterdam. At Arthur Andersen he achieved experience in tax planning of International oriented clients. In 1998 Fariq joined KPMG to assist in setting up and expanding the tax practice of KPMG Suriname. He advised KPMG multinational clients operating in the field of mining, infrastructure, fast food and lottery on Surinam and international tax issues. He was also involved in the fiscal decentralization program in Suriname in close cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank. The purpose of the program was to shift taxes levied by the Central Government to Local Government. In 2007 Fariq returned back to The Netherlands. Initially he started working for  Fortis Intertrust Nederland where he was also involved in the start up of the Rotterdam office. In 2009 Fariq joined Tax Consultants International, where he is engaged in tax planning of international oriented clients, financial products and mergers and acquisitions. 

e-mail: Fariq.Ishaak@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010461.

 Anita Liu is graduated as a bachelor at the HEAO in The Hague in the major studies business economics and fiscal economics. After a few years working in the financial service branch, she continued her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax advisors with the international corporate tax return team. Anita works as a junior tax advisor with TCI since March 2006, who is also responsible for the (corporate) tax return practice. At the moment Anita is studying the master study fiscal economics at the University of Amsterdam.

e-mail: Anita.Liu@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010473.

 Annemieke Schreuder is a tax lawyer, who graduated at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. She started her career as tax advisor in the international tax practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Later, she specialized as tax compliance expert and assisted in the setting up of the tax compliance centre. In 2002 she joined Deloitte as compliance specialist in the tax compliance centre for international corporate clients. At the end of 2009 Annemieke joined TCI as tax compliance manager.

e-mail: Annemieke.Schreuder@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010475.

 Marija van Oers-Maksimovic is employed as a Back Office Manager. She has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a secretary and later on as a consultant at the Customs Group and Financial Management Solutions. In this respect she has knowledge of indirect taxes VAT and Customs. Furthermore, she has also gathered financial knowledge. She is responsible for the back office as well as for the infrastructure at the office. Furthermore, she consults and supports the management on the implementation of the HRM policy.

e-mail: Marija.Vanoers@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010479. 

  Ülkü Deger has strengthen our team in the function of secretary. She has been working for several years with BDO CampsObers Accountants & Adviseurs, where she had a combined function as secretary and administrative staff.  Before joining us she worked for a social institution, but a financial organization was more of a challenge. At TCI she gives support to the back office, relationship management and control of debtors and creditors.  

e-mail: Ulku.Deger@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010471. 

  Wilco van Uden is employed as an administrative assistant. He has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant at the Tax Management Accounting Services for several years. In this respect he has knowledge of national and international administrations (accounting, preparation of annual statements and audit support). He is the contact for accounting and related issued for several entities of Tax Consultants International.

e-mail: Wilco.vanuden@taxci.nl, Telephone: +31-10-2010476.