Irene Tai

Irene is a Corporate Tax Advisory Partner at PwC Singapore. She has over 12 years of experience in providing corporate and international tax advisory services to multinational companies with a special focus on clients in the oil and gas, chemicals, mining, and commodity trading space.

Irene has advised clients on the structuring of inbound and outbound investments and the setting up of regional trading and headquarters functions in Singapore. This involved, amongst others, developing sustainable and tax efficient holding, financing and operating structures. She has also advised clients across various sectors on realignment of tax and business operating models, business integrations and corporate structure simplifications. As a tax incentive specialist, she assists clients with incentive planning, strategy, negotiation, application and compliance as part of the design and implementation of regional structures and business models.

She is an oil and gas and commodity specialist. She manages a portfolio of clients in the oil and gas, chemicals, mining and commodity trading sectors, assisting them with their day-to-day tax matters.

From 2013 to 2015, Irene headed up the Singapore tax desk in PwC New York, providing tax advisory services to US-based MNCs.

Prior to PwC, Irene was a senior officer with International Enterprise Singapore, responsible for promoting Singapore as a global trading hub and administration of the Global Trader Programme, a tax incentive for commodity trading companies.

Irene graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Degree in Business Administration (Finance). She is an Accredited Tax Practitioner.