Irfan Shafiq, TAX ASSISTANT

Irfan Shafiq

TAX ASSISTANT

U TURN TAX REFUND LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Accounting and Human Resource Management
Experience
18 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 5 Months

TAX ASSISTANT at U TURN TAX REFUND LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2012

- Preparation and filing of Value Added Tax (VAT) and Goods and Services Tax (GST) reimbursement claims
including all necessary forms for 13th and 8th Directive EU claims.
- Legal and tax compliance of VAT/GST reimbursement claim legislations for EU countries and major economies
worldwide.
- Assisting clients in itemizing expenses and understanding their tax returns.
- Maintaining clients' Tax records up to date with various countries' tax authorities.
- Resolution of client tax assessment notices through correspondences and/or audits resulting in reduction or
removal of penalty, interest, and assessments.
- Assisting Tax Manager in preparation of tax reports to present to the management and clients.
- Ensuring collaboration between operations and finance, audit, administration and IT support functions across the
entire offices worldwide.
- Providing guidance to the Global Sales Team/Customer Services Team on all aspects of the tax issues incl.
researching, reports analyzing financial statements, invoices and required documentation.
- Reviewing tax returns for accuracy, completeness and conformance to tax regulations, which decreased
amended returns by 30%.
- Researching on tax issues and legislations in order to keep abreast of latest VAT regulations in EU.

Staff Accountant at Andeson Vidray Chartered Accountants
  • Australia
  • July 2009 to December 2011

Worked as a Staff Accountant in Anderson Vidray Chartered Accountants Australia with various Accounting work.

Brief summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

- Preparation of Individual, Partnership, Company and Trust Income Tax Returns.
- Preparation of Corporate Financial Statements.
- Preparation and Lodgement of clients’ Business Activity Statement (BAS).
- Preparation and Lodgement of Goods and Services Tax Return (GST).
- Preparation and Lodgement of Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT).
- Auditing of confidential Special Purpose Financial Statements.
- Financial analysis via Cash flow Statements.
- Preparation of Workers Compensation Insurance documents.
- Processing of Australian Taxation Office Notices and Assessments.
- Liaising with Government Departments for clients.
- Dealing with a range of clients from numerous industries.
- Supervision of subordinates.

Store Supervisor at Caltex Star Mart
  • Australia
  • June 2005 to July 2009

Worked as a Store Supervisor in 24/7 busy store along with Pacific Highway.
Brief summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for day-to-day store operations.
- Coordinate inventory control, receiving; merchandising (plan-o-grams) and store maintenance.
- Established sales goals, managed budgets and devised sales forecasts.
- Handled sales tracking and reporting, inventory control, and employee payroll.
- Duty Manager deputising in the absence of the Store Manager.
- Led store to rank in top 20 locations from a national region of 1, 850 locations.

Education

Master's degree, Accounting and Human Resource Management
  • at University of Newcastle, Australia
  • December 2012

Studying Masters with specializing in different areas of business such as Accounting and Human Resource Management. This should help me challenge my career and develop more skills and knowledge to relate it to commercial work in this industry.

Bachelor's degree, Financial/Taxation Accounting, Human Resource Management
  • at University of Newcastle, Australia
  • December 2008

Studies Bachelor of Commerce with specializing in Financial, Management and Taxation Accounting. Also studies vast areas of business field to gain overall knowledge of Business and Accounting Field such as Human Resource Management, Marketing and Management. This degree laid the basic foundation for me to start and build my career in real time world.

High school or equivalent, Business Studies, Physics and Computer Studies
  • at Cambridge International Examination
  • June 2004

Laid my study foundation based on this school certificate which helped me develop my mind to progress in actual world. It helped me lead my passion towards the business and accounting field by gaining great scores and then starting my bachelor's degree overseas.

Specialties & Skills

Financial Statements
Cash Flow Management
Financial Accounting
Tax Accounting
Accounting
MYOB Accountant Enterprise Software
Microsoft Software
Viztopia Accounting Software
TAX PREPARATION

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

Certified Practicing Accountant Australia
  • Student Membership
  • July 2005
Chartered Accountant Australia
  • Student Membership
  • July 2005
National Institute of Accountants Australia
  • Student Membership
  • December 2005

Training and Certifications

Customer Handling (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
March 2009