David Sandison
Head of Tax and Singapore Practice Leader
Grant Thornton Singapore

David joined the firm in July 2019 to head up the Tax practice, after a 35-year career in international tax with a big four accounting firm in London, Melbourne and Singapore (as a well as a five-year “post retirement” spell running his own tax practice). He leverages off that unique international experience to help his Multinational clients (big and small) structure and manage their cross-border business operations, not only from a tax perspective, but also from a commercial and practical perspective, having dealt with, in his time, clients in almost every industry and situation imaginable.

On the external front, David was for many years a member of Taxation and Levies Committee for the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore, and latterly performed the same role for the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals, now known as Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

Jeremy O’Neill
Associate Director, GST
Grant Thornton

Jeremy has 10 years’ experience in providing indirect tax (GST / VAT) advice to a wide range of clients. Jeremy was a part of Grant Thornton’s implementation team during the introduction of Value-Added Tax in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2017-2018. Throughout the course of his career with Grant Thornton, he has lived in and advised clients on indirect tax matters in UK, UAE and Singapore.

Jeremy advises a portfolio of multinational companies and small-medium enterprises on a full spectrum on GST matters, including those within the Fund Management and digital assets industry. This ranges from GST compliance matters including; GST registration, IRAS GST audits, GST health checks (Assisted Self-Help Kit (ASK) reviews and Assisted Assurance Compliance (ACAP)) through to GST advisory assignments such as: GST scheme applications, international inbound projects, tax rulings, tax automation and software implementation reviews across a wide variety of business sectors.