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Khainelle is a member of Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants with more than 10 years of professional experiences in Corporate Tax and Indirect Tax Compliance, Transfer Pricing, Due Diligence and Corporate Financial Reporting.

Prior to joining ARDENT, she was working with KPMG Philippines as well as with Philip Morris International as a Supervisor under the Tax Compliance and Corporate Financial Reporting department. Khainelle also holds Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy.

Experience

Khainelle was in-charge for performing tax health checks assessing compliance of companies engaged in business process outsourcing entities and ecozone/freezone registered entities on statutory tax regulations and determine possible tax exposure during tax audit. Moreover, potential tax issues on certain planned transactions are also being identified and raised by Khainelle to the client, as well as recommendations on potential tax saving measures.

Khainelle was also in-charge in ensuring the tax compliance of companies, from the time of registration, accurate and timely tax return submissions for all taxes and payment of taxes due avoiding incurrence of penalties.

Khainelle also performed tax due diligence review on a planned merger or acquisition of financial institutions, rural banks, listed company engaged in providing water and wastewater services, and toll operators, to assess and calculate possible tax exposures tied with the consummation of the purchase transaction.

Khainelle also have the experience in transfer pricing, ensuring intercompany agreements are in place and is involved on the regular review of transfer pricing between related parties. Khainelle also prepared the local transfer pricing documentation and performs reconciliation between local file, financial statements, and tax return reporting of related party transactions.