February 2012

Main

What a relief

Weinberger to take over at Ernst & Young

Salans appoints new partner

Latham & Watkins adds to tax partners

Morgan Lewis adds partner in New York

Hogan Lovells appoints new tax counsel

PwC grows in LA

Payne rejoins PwC as partner

Loyens & Loeff grows Asia capabilities

TIGTA adds new counsel

Noerr adds tax lawyer to partnership

Bell moves on to taxing bricks

How China’s carbon tax will fail

Why the IRS cost sharing regulations are bad news

The real reason behind Poland’s mining tax

Mediation makes ground in resolving disputes

Grand old policies: Republican candidates on corporate tax

Why taxpayers need their own transfer pricing professionals

Copthorne’s legacy: The future of Canada’s GAAR

Kenny: Irish corporation tax rate stays

Why the US tax gap is increasing

Private equity transactions in Australia – the new landscape

Why the Netherlands implemented a bank tax

Sovereign immunity: A US and European view

Change at the top

Owens looks back on his time in office

Pascal Saint-Amans finds his stride in Owens’s shoes

Hong Kong to launch APA programme

Japanese tax reform to include earning stripping rules

New Zealand taxpayers find feasible option to avoid risk

US revenue’s increased focus on cross-border trade

Challenges in financial services transfer pricing in 2012

Should France go it alone with a Tobin tax?

The resurrection of France’s carbon tax

VAT debates remain unresolved in the Netherlands

Russian ruling spells danger for thinly capitalised companies

Why the future is looking bright for dispute resolution in China

Precedent set on statutory mergers and demergers

The fine line between planning and avoidance

Albania: Corporate income tax & penalty provisions

Australia: Government winds back tax consolidation opportunities

Belgium: New tax measures affecting companies

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amendments to the tax laws of Republic of Srpska

Brazil: New decisions issued on deductibility of goodwill

Bulgaria: New law on the activities of collective investment schemes

Canada: Canadian Supreme Court confirms GAAR test

Chile: The Chilean IRS’ interpretation of article 7 and subcontracted services

Cyprus: New austerity measures and tax implications

Finland: Finnish tax reform 2012

France: Significant changes on acquisition and sale of shares

Germany: Anti-treaty shopping rule revised

India: Transfer pricing ruling for a procurement services company

Indonesia: Income tax treatment of shariah-based banking and financial Institutions

Ireland: Ireland reduces the rate of stamp duty on the acquisition of business assets

Luxembourg: Russia and Luxembourg amend double tax treaty

FYR Macedonia: Micro and small businesses now exempt from profit tax payments

Mexico: 2012 Mexican tax package update

Montenegro: Plans for more transparent collection of profit taxes

Norway: Norway’s Supreme Court rules that a Commissionaire company is not a PE of the principal company

Romania: Taxation of worldwide income: new rules and interpretation issues

Serbia: Montenegro and Serbia tax treaty enters into force

Spain: Supreme Court provides guidance on thin capitalisation rules

Switzerland: Tightening of the Swiss withholding tax practice

US Inbound: Final regulations on disregarded entities involved in conduit arrangements

US Outbound: Proposed regulations clarify tax accounting method rules for foreign corporations

Vietnam: Amendments to expect in 2012

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