This content is from: Global European Tax Awards 2017: Final week for submissions Companies and firms have one week left to enter for the European Tax Awards 2017. By Anjana Haines January 30 2017
This content is from: Global Final days to vote for the top tax transactional and tax planning firms Two forthcoming issues of International Tax Review will include surveys of the leading tax transactional (March) and tax planning firms (May) around the world. This is your opportunity to vote. By Anjana Haines January 26 2017
This content is from: Global M&A considerations for 2017: Don’t let tax derail the deal Tax considerations will never make a deal, but they certainly can break a deal. Laurence Field, a senior tax and corporate business partner at national audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill, reflects on t... January 25 2017
This content is from: Global The Brockman brief: Leadership attributes: developing relationships Tax professionals from all areas of the tax sphere need to move outside their comforts zone to grasp the opportunities available and boost skills. Keith Brockman highlights the need for internal and external networkin... January 25 2017
This content is from: United Kingdom Will the UK become a tax haven after Brexit? A storm of controversy has been whipped up surrounding Chancellor Philip Hammond’s suggestion the UK might look to become a tax haven post-Brexit. How might this work in terms of TP policy and what does it mean for Eu... January 17 2017
This content is from: Austria General VAT reverse charge: The view from Central Europe Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are seen as the key supporters of the European Commission’s generalised reverse charge mechanism (GRCM), but not all industries or multinationals in these co... By Joe Stanley-Smith January 17 2017
This content is from: United Kingdom What is behind Snapchat’s savvy UK sales move? Snap, the company behind the iconic messaging app Snapchat, is looking to the UK to book advertising sales for tax, and probably PR, purposes. January 12 2017
This content is from: United Kingdom Simon Skinner becomes head of tax at Travers Smith Simon Skinner has been appointed as the new head of UK firm Travers Smith’s tax practice. By Anjana Haines January 12 2017
This content is from: Austria Global VAT reform takes on new impetus in 2017 In 2017, governments in Europe and around the world will divert their energies away from austerity VAT hikes aimed at combating various financial crises to refining their indirect tax regimes to fight fraud and help p... By Contributed January 11 2017
This content is from: Austria No more secret tax rulings in the EU? The European Union’s new transparency rules for tax rulings have entered into force, but will it really be the end of secret or controversial tax rulings? By Anjana Haines January 10 2017
This content is from: United Kingdom Proskauer adds new partner to London office Stephen Pevsner has joined international law firm Proskauer at its London office as a tax partner. By Anjana Haines January 09 2017
This content is from: Austria EU to take ‘nuclear option’ on VAT fraud and allow reverse charge systems The European Commission (EC) plans to take drastic action to tackle the €50 billion ($53 billion) in annual EU cross-border VAT fraud by allowing member states to deviate from the VAT Directive. By Joe Stanley-Smith January 06 2017
This content is from: United Kingdom Grant Thornton appoints new partner in London Vinny McCullagh has been appointed as a partner at Grant Thornton’s London office. By Anjana Haines January 05 2017
This content is from: United States Akin Gump announces three new tax partners Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted Sophie Donnithorne-Tait, Olivier De Moor and Alexander Specht to partners in the firm’s tax practice as of January 1 2017. By Anjana Haines January 03 2017
