As Tax Director I was heading 6 tax experts including CIT, VAT and TP experts. DPS Tax team is the corporate team responsible for ELN/AMN taxes worldwide in close cooperation with the regional tax teams and CBS tax teams who will be local first point of contact regarding compliance related tax issues and local tax audits and litigation. DPS Tax team manages all corporate income tax, transfer pricing and VAT issues and projects, advises on and supports all local tax audits and tax litigation globally and reviews all Dutch VAT and CIT returns for all Dutch entities of DANONE. Although the day-to-day management of local tax positions lies with the CBU's together with the CBS tax teams, the DPS Tax team has the final decision as we safeguard, control and manage the tax vision, strategy and goals for ELN/AMN regarding corporate income taxes, VAT, transfer pricing and other taxes globally. As almost every business activity regarding inter-company transactions, cross border activity or change in business can have a tax impact, we need to be and are well connected to the business and various other corporate functions to safeguard the risk-reward ratio for DANONE to be in line with management desire and current social and tax environment acceptance. DPS Tax team together with our colleagues at the Paris Tax team - who are tax responsible for the divisions Dairy, Water and Africa - form the DANONE Corporate Tax team containing of 6 tax experts in Schiphol and 6 tax experts in Paris.