Stephen Phua

Consultant

Professor Stephen Phua is a Consultant at Allen & Gledhill, who has a wealth of experience in the area of taxation.

Stephen has been teaching in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore for more than 35 years, where he earned a strong reputation for his modules in tax, VAT/GST, international tax law and business & finance. He also serves as the co-Director of the LL.M (International Business Law) programme and an Academic Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. He is a frequent speaker and was visiting faculty in several leading academic institutions in Singapore, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Switzerland and the USA.

He was a member on all the three tax tribunals in Singapore (Income Tax Board of Review, GST Board of Review and Valuation Review Board), each for more than a decade. He was also a part-time consultant in the Inland Revenue Authority Singapore (IRAS) and is frequently sought as an expert on Singapore tax laws by foreign tax authorities and taxpayers in international arbitration as well as domestic disputes. In 2012, he established the Center for International Tax Law in East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, where he served as its International Director for several years.

Stephen has earned the distinction of being the first legal scholar from Singapore to be appointed by the Shanghai Municipality as an Eastern Scholar from 2012 to 2015. He has delivered papers in many international conferences and published articles in refereed journals and chapters in books. He is the Editor of two books: “Recent Developments in Financial Regulation and Capital Markets” (2003) and “Excise Taxation in Asia” (2007).