Sami Koskinen

Director for Stakeholder Relations at FINNISH TAX ADMINISTRATION

Sami Koskinen is a director in the Finnish Tax Administration, responsible for stakeholder relations and has worked in taxation for close to 25 years. He has served the Finnish Tax Administration in differing expert, managerial and director positions. In addition Sami Koskinen has also worked for Deloitte Finland as a tax advisor/manager as well as for the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a fiscal attaché at the Finnish Permanent Representation to the European Union. His work has mainly focused on domestic and international corporate taxation and in particular, transfer pricing. In his current position as a director for stakeholder relations Sami Koskinen is responsible for leading the work in advancing the key strategic goals of the Finnish Tax Administration vis-à-vis differing stakeholders. The strategic goals currently focus largely on digitalisation of taxation. Sami has been a frequent speaker in international events. He has also served as a delegate to the OECD Working Party 6 and has been engaged to capacity building work in Namibia and in Georgia.