Special features - September 2013

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Special features - September 2013

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Read this month's special features on Brazil and Asia.

Recent developments on the Brazilian CFC rules

Luiz Felipe Centeno Ferraz and Matheus Bertholo Piconez of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados explore the evolution of Brazil’s controlled foreign company (CFC) rules and look at some of the associated questions which still remain unanswered.

Asia focus

Authors from DFDL, KPMG in Singapore, EY and HNP Counsel – Taxand analyse the latest developments in Myanmar, Singapore, India and Thailand, respectively.

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