Jean-Hugues Chabot is a partner in the Tax division of the Montreal office of Ernst & Young LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership. He is the Leader of the Indirect Tax Practice for Eastern Canada. Jean-Hugues has experience serving both public and private companies in the retail, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications, transportation and services sectors. He also serves many public organizations both in the municipal and the health sectors. For some years now, Jean-Hugues has also been working extensively on indirect tax issues related to eCommerce.

Jean-Hugues joined Ernst & Young LLP in 2003 after working for another international accounting firm in Montreal as well as in the Legal Department of the Minister of Revenue in tax litigation. He has experience in both personal and corporate income tax but currently provides services related to indirect taxes and customs duties.

Jean-Hugues represents Ernst & Young LLP on committees of various professional organizations, including the Association de la planification fiscale et financière, the Canadian Tax Foundation, the tax law section of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Insolvency Practitioners Association, the Canadian Importers Association and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has also been invited by the Department of Finance to analyze the impact of GST in Canada and has been a member of the Barreau du Québec's committee set up to study the GST impact on the legal profession.

Jean-Hugues obtained his Law degree from the University of Montreal in 1981 and his designation in 1983, after attending the Master of Tax program at the University of Sherbrooke. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of indirect taxes and customs and was a lecturer in the Masters Program in Tax at the University of Sherbrooke. He has also authored a number of articles for various magazines and newspapers.

Peter Schilling is the leader of Ernst & Young LLP's Global VAT/GST Desk. The Desk consists of indirect tax professionals from different countries located in New York, Chicago, San Jose and Irvine. Peter is based in New York and has 17 years of experience as an advisor on corporate and indirect tax matters. He transferred to New York from the Ernst & Young member firm in Germany (Berlin office) in 2007, where he led the VAT Group and the European Indirect Tax Energy, Chemicals, and Utilities Network.

Peter and his team perform VAT reviews, risk management and restructuring projects for retail, industrial, insurance, and energy businesses. In his current role, he advises US businesses regarding their indirect tax issues abroad.

Peter also has significant experience in the performance and coordination of VAT compliance services and VAT advisory projects for US multinationals, as well as in the optimization of the VAT recovery rate of financial services businesses.

Werner Kreissl is a senior manager in the Montreal Commodity Tax practice of Ernst & Young LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership. Formerly a manager of the practice for a large Canadian customs broker, has over twenty years of experience as a customs and international trade practitioner. He has experience in carrying out operational compliance reviews working with customs valuation, origin, tariff classification and special programs.

In addition, Werner has significant experience in the area of supply chain structures and works closely with the Global customs, transfer pricing and international tax practices to that customs-related areas of concern are addressed in such engagements. He has assisted in setting up TESCM structures resulting in significant duty savings with the objective of meeting customs compliance.

Werner is very experienced in the area of classification re-engineering given his hands-on experience with the Harmonized System Tariff since its introduction in Canada in 1988 and has provided NAFTA origin assistance to numerous large multinational companies. Some examples of the NAFTA-related projects that Werner has worked on include the qualification of motor vehicles using the concept of "traced materials" and related party transactions involving "net cost" regional value content calculations.

Werner recently completed a duty recovery project for an importer in the automotive industry, which resulted in significant recoveries and annual savings on a go-forward basis. The success of this project was a combination of Werner's team approach with the client combined with his in-depth industry knowledge.

Werner has a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University and his Masters of Business Administration from McGill University. He also has completed both the Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association and Canadian Customs Brokers Qualifying Courses. Werner has been a member of the Importer and Exporter's Association in Canada (IE Canada) for several years and has spoken at numerous conferences for such associations as IE Canada, the Tax Executive Institute, and the Canadian Tax Foundation.

Carl Pihlgren heads the Scandinavian Tax Desk of Ernst & Young LLP, the US member firm of the global Ernst & Young organization. Based in New York, he serves as an international tax advisor to many US and Scandinavian-based multinationals. Carl is experienced in both Scandinavian inbound and outbound international tax issues. He works extensively in the areas of international mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, offshore financing arrangements and hybrid entities and instruments.

Carl is also a member of the EU Tax Group of the global Ernst & Young organization. He is a frequent speaker on international tax matters and has authored several articles on international tax in the International Tax Review. Carl has over 13 years of international tax experience working in the UK, the US and Sweden. Before joining Ernst & Young, Carl was at the Administrative Court of Appeal in Sweden.