Insight - Directors’ remuneration: The tax reflex

Kasturi Nathan is partner and head of governance & sustainability, KPMG in Malaysia

WHEN asked to respond on a maze of tax queries, Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity is supposedly understood by only seven persons in the world, replied, “this is a question too difficult for a mathematician, it should be asked of a philosopher”.

Indeed, the late great Albert Einstein once admitted that figuring out tax computation was beyond him.