Lin is a corporate tax partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers China firm. Lin began her career with Tax Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Beijing in 1998. She worked in PwC Hong Kong on a tour of duty during 2002/2003.

During her professional years, Lin has developed extensive experiences through providing services to multinational companies and domestic Chinese entities which cover a wide variety of industries: modern services, trading, manufacturing, telecommunications, etc. She advises on corporate structures from tax and business perspectives, including corporation formation, foreign exchange, import and export operations, business regulatory framework, etc.

Most of Lin’s clients are multinational corporations (“MNC”). She is familiar with MNC’s culture and has a global view. Therefore, her advice normally works good for both the overseas headquarters and the Chinese subsidiaries. With Chinese government strengthening the foreign exchange control in recent years, Lin has been handling a lot of cross-border payment cases for her MNC clients in multiple cities in China. She has the most updated experiences in the withholding tax assessment and clearance process, and the collaboration with the banks and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to ensure smooth outbound payments.

Lin holds a Bachelor of Arts (Finance) degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She is a member of Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountant and a PRC Registered Tax Agent. She is the head of PwC Certified Tax Agent practice in Beijing.

For over a decade, Jonathan has helped world leaders, Fortune 100 CEOs, Hollywood celebrities and Nobel Prize winners communicate across cultural and linguistic barriers as a Chinese-English conference interpreter, bilingual host, and communication coach.

He is a co-founder and partner at Next Level Communication and Cadence Translate. He currently serves as Co-chair of the Young Professionals Committee at Amcham China, and has previously served as a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, and as a mentor at Chinaccelerator and the Schwarzman Scholars Program.

Diana is a senior manager of PwC’s People & Organization Tax team in Beijing, China. She has over 16 years experience in providing US and China tax services.

Her work involved advising clients in cross-border tax issues, expatriation and pre-immigration planning and is knowledgeable with FATCA and CRS reporting requirement for individual.

In terms of US tax services, the following are the main scope she is working on:

Executives’ compensation and tax planning
US tax planning for US founders
Tax planning for US immigration & expatriation