Asaithamby Perumal is a partner in the tax services of Ernst & Young Tax Consultants Sdn Bhd. His professional experience includes providing tax consulting, structuring, tax incentive and compliance services for local and international corporate groups as well as public listed companies.
Asai specializes in providing tax technical and value-added solutions including advising on various tax technical matters. He has worked in significant international tax engagements relating to inbound and outbound investments, withholding tax planning, foreign source income recognition issues among others.
Additionally, Asai has been involved in some of Malaysia’s largest mergers and group reorganization activities. He was involved in the group restructuring projects of a Malaysian business conglomerate associated with automotive franchises, motor trading, property trading, hotels as well as food and beverage (F&B). He has also worked with many government authorities on tax incentives and policy matters.
Asai has previously worked in Australia where he provided tax solutions on capital gains tax, trust tax law, corporate tax, international taxation matters, restructure and overall tax matters of public listed groups.
Asai graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Master of Taxation from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
