Americas Awards winners announced Find out who took home the awards from last week's International Tax Review ceremony in New York. By Ralph Cunningham September 29 2013
IRS says it is implementing plans to measure success of Compliance Assurance Process The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the US has criticised the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for failing to evaluate whether the goals of its Compliance Assurance Process (CAP) are being... By Ralph Cunningham September 25 2013
Switzerland’s parliament votes for Fatca Both houses of the Swiss parliament have now approved the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) between Switzerland and the US to implement the Foreign Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). By Ralph Cunningham September 15 2013
India addresses tension in revenue's relationship with taxpayers In a Q&A on day one of this year's India Tax Forum, Amit Rana, vice president for taxes for GE in India, discusses how the Vodafone case might be resolved,... By Ralph Cunningham September 03 2013
France adds to non-cooperative jurisdictions over tax information exchange Taxpayers will have to think carefully about the jurisdictions they use for their French transactions after the government in Paris published its annual update of countries that it believes do... By Ralph Cunningham September 03 2013
Chidambaram chooses Shome to lead India's Tax Administration Reform Commission P Chidambaram, India’s finance minister, has appointed Parthasarathi Shome as chairman of the Tax Reform Administration Commission (TARC), which the minister said he would set up in his budget speech... By Ralph Cunningham & Matthew Gilleard August 27 2013
Financial institutions get first sight of Fatca online registration portal The US has opened the online registration portal financial institutions (FI) can use to ensure adherence with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). By Ralph Cunningham August 19 2013
Caymans are next for FATCA IGA The US has agreed terms with another jurisdiction for an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), bringing to 10 the number of countries it... By Ralph Cunningham August 13 2013
US unveils new tax guidance plan The US plans to issue guidance on a string of international tax issues in the next 12 months, including the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, Subpart F and deferral, inbound... By Ralph Cunningham August 13 2013
Joint group to deal with interpretations of revenue recognition accounting standard The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) are to set up a group to deal with different interpretations arising from the final converged standard... By Ralph Cunningham July 30 2013
