Firms reach the heights in tax planning

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Firms reach the heights in tax planning

April 30 2008

The biggest professional services firms are near or at the top of International Tax Review's first poll of the world's leading planning practices. And law firms and smaller consultancies are also competing to offer bespoke tax structuring, transfer pricing and indirect tax advice

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