Bert van der Klok Deloitte

Bert van der Klok, Deloitte Netherlands, is a director in the Rotterdam office and a member of the Deloitte Global Transfer Pricing practice and the Business Model Optimization (BMO) group. He has approximately 25 years of experience in the international tax arena, 15 of those in transfer pricing and BMO. Before joining the transfer pricing practice in the Netherlands, Bert worked for two years for Deloitte US.

Bert's day-to-day work includes coordinating and being responsible for conducting global and pan-European transfer pricing projects (including tax planning, BMO, and European transfer pricing documentation) for multinational enterprises, designing and implementing transfer pricing remuneration models/contractual relations to enhance tax efficiency while maintaining a good balance between tax and commercial realities. As part of those projects he developed business conversion and exit strategies to minimise potential tax exposures.

Bert is responsible for transfer pricing for Deloitte Netherlands' Chinese markets, and he serves major Chinese and Japanese multinationals. Bert is active in a very diverse practice that also includes Dutch and US-based multinationals.

Bert has been involved in a number of major tax audits in the Netherlands, building audit defence strategies for major Dutch-based companies and discussing principal transfer pricing issues/positions with the Dutch tax authorities. A number of those audits resulted in advance pricing agreements (APAs) on the transfer pricing position for these companies going forward.

Bert has successfully negotiated a large number of unilateral and bilateral APAs in the Netherlands, including (bilateral) APAs for Netherlands multinationals and the European headquarters of foreign multinationals (mainly Japanese). Bert successfully assisted clients with various mutual agreement procedures.

Bert lectures on transfer pricing topics on a regular basis for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Erasmus University, and the Deloitte AmCham seminar.

Bert studied fiscal law at the University of Amsterdam and holds a degree as a fiscal lawyer.