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Hay wants better understanding between business and governments

February 05 2009

Diane Hay, former deputy director, CT & VAT and head of the Transfer Pricing Group at HM Revenue & Customs in the UK tells Catherine Snowdon about some of the main difficulties she tackled while at the revenue authority, offers taxpayers an insight into how transfer pricing cases are selected and talks about the future of transfer pricing.

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