Twelve top picks from 2013's tax disputes

It is not easy to characterise the type of tax disputes that reached the world's courtrooms in 2013, apart from with the generality that they arose from differing views of taxpayers and officials about what legitimate tax planning is. Here is a selection of the ones covered on the tax disputes channel of International Tax Review.

January
Chinese 2012 tax rulings deliver mixed messages

February
Sanofi's Indian High Court win is good for Vodafone-type transactions

March
Canadian taxpayers to face more foreign-based information requirements in transfer pricing audits

April
ECJ ruling on holding companies joining VAT groups confirms BAA solution

May
Resource Capital ruling helps taxpayers with TARP valuations but ATO approach remains worrying

June
Vodafone defends position in UK and Indian tax disputes

July
Canada's Lehigh Cement ruling broadens scope of foreign anti-avoidance rule

August
Brazilian courts' changing analysis of tax planning

September
BB&T loses STARS case but ruling clouds legitimate tax planning rights in US

October
Authorities get information exchange warning as Cayman taxpayers get ATO ruling quashed

November
Business lobbies Putin to review tax authorities' powers of enforcement

December
HK Court of Final Appeal rules against tax commissioner in Nice Cheer case on unrealised revaluation gains


Special focuses
US debt-equity

BRICS tax cooperation

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