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Switzerland receives an unprecedented number of information exchange requests every year by foreign countries. Burckhardt Law’s Rolf Wüthrich explores how the private banking state is amending its exchange obligations around share rights and corporate ownership in a bid to harmonise its laws with international norms.

Most banks make it a policy not to provide tax advisory services, even though there are no regulatory prohibitions to do so in Switzerland, the UK or US. But as tax considerations become increasingly important in any investment strategy, Deloitte Switzerland’s Brandi Caruso and Karim Schubiger discuss the viability of banks providing such an explicit value-add.

An update to Russian transfer pricing regulations has seen an uptick in tax authority audits applying the comparable uncontrolled price (CUP) method. Deloitte’s Dmitry Kulakov, Alexey Sobchuk, Dmitriy Masharov, and Anastasia Kopysova explore the approach in three particular cases.