Noel P. Rabaja is a Tax Partner in the Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) Group, with over 25 years of experience in tax compliance and tax advisory services. He is currently the Head of Market Group 6 of SGV and also the Country Leader for Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory Services (TARAS). He serves as the local country tax lead for a number of EY global engagements with multinational companies.
Noel previously served as GCR Leader in the Philippines prior to his appointment as the Head of Market Group 6.
Noel graduated Cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy degree from the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and ranked 1st place in the 1992 CPA licensure examinations.
How Noel is building a better working world
Noel helps clients comply with their tax filing obligations, statutory reporting and tax accounting requirements.
He creates value for his client’s business by helping them optimize tax efficiency in their business transactions and their corporate structure. He has significant experience in advising clients on the tax implications of transactions, determination of the related taxes due or tax risks, conducting due diligence review for tax matters and review of tax assumptions in financial models (e.g., for mergers and acquisitions and tax structuring).
Noel was instrumental in setting up the EY Asia-Pacific Tax Center (APTC) in the Philippines that showcased Philippine GCR’s unique combined talent in the areas of accounting and tax across the APAC regional network. The APTC in the Philippines eventually formed part of the EY Global Delivery System (GDS) operations in the country that currently service the entire EY global network from the Philippines.