Faculty Profile

SUM Yee Loong's photo

SUM Yee Loong

Full-time Faculty
Professor of Accounting (Practice)
School of Accountancy SOA
Mr. Sum Yee Loong has specialised in taxation since qualifying as an accountant in the UK. He has over 25 years of experience in Singapore taxation. 
 
Mr. Sum has substantial experience serving multi-national companies and local corporate clients including financial institutions, providing advisory tax services to these corporate clients. His specialties include corporate structuring & restructuring, restructuring for IPO, acquisition & mergers and international tax planning. He is active in providing strategies and leading tax review teams to create and identify tax saving opportunities for both corporate and individual clients. He also advises and provides tax opinions on cross-border transactions and structured finance. 
 
Mr. Sum is also active in advising and negotiating for tax incentives for various corporate clients. Mr. Sum had been nominated on several occasions as one of the top 10 leading Tax Advisers in Singapore by International Tax Review. He is also featured as one of the World’s Leading Tax Advisers in the Legal Media Group 2011 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers 
 
Mr. Sum was Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Nanyang Technological University lecturing Taxation to undergraduates and Advance Taxation to post-graduate students till 2003. 
 
He was examiner for the Advance Taxation Paper (Singapore Variant) of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK) from 1997 to 2007. He was also previously examiner for the Taxation Paper (Singapore Law) for the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. 

Education

MSc in Fiscal Studies (Taxation and Public Finance), University of Bath, UK
FCCA
CTA
FCPA

Research Interests

  • Tax Implications of Cross Border Finance
  • Double Taxation Agreements

Teaching Interests

  • Individual Tax Planning
  • Corporate Tax Planning
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • GST

Selected Recognition and Awards

Most Outstanding Adjunct, School of Accountancy Teaching Award, SMU, 2007 & 2011
Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, School of Accountancy Teaching Award, SMU, 2007
Most Outstanding Adjunct, SMU Teaching Excellence Award, 2006
Best Adjunct Teacher, School of Accountancy Teaching Award, SMU, 2005 & 2006

Selected Publications

SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=2038951