A new focus on early intervention and increased AI use is transforming how tax authorities are approaching TP audits, though capacity-constrained jurisdictions risk falling behind
The French administration has used AI to detect undeclared swimming pools and verandas but always includes a human in the loop, the AI in Tax Forum heard
The UK tax authority’s deputy director of large business also reassured taxpayers that HMRC will not ‘nitpick’ returns
Sucafina’s tax chief was speaking at the ITR Pillar 2 Forum in London alongside experts from HMRC and other organisations
Sponsored
-
Sponsored by McCarthy TétraultThe key changes under Budget 2025 and the outlook for 2026 raise several areas of heightened focus for taxpayers, say Matthew Kraemer, Adam N Unick, and Justin Ng of McCarthy Tétrault
-
Sponsored by Lakshmikumaran & SridharanThe Tiger Global Supreme Court ruling weakens the status of tax residency certificates under tax treaties and increases substance‑based scrutiny, say S Vasudevan, Bharathi Krishnaprasad, and Krishna Laasya V of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
-
Sponsored by DeloitteJess Williams, Jimmy Man, and Olivier Hody of Deloitte explain how tax can be elevated from a post-close support function to a value-realisation tool in M&A transactions through quick wins and longer-term actions
-
Germany and France have agreed to move the European Union towards a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB), which would transform tax in the bloc. But the measure is not popular everywhere in the EU.
-
Deloitte has promoted two new partners and three new directors: Bart De Gouw, Hadleigh Brock, Bronwyn Baird, Jamie Hall and Muhammad Cajee.
-
The Supreme Court has thrown the US tax system into chaos by ruling in favour of South Dakota in the Wayfair case. Multinationals around the world face huge tax exposure and smaller businesses which sell online could face ruin.
-
Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, an affiliate of the global firm Alvarez & Marsal, has announced it will be hiring Jon de Jong in Denver and Louis Mancini in New York, bolstering the firm’s global tax practice.
-
Ted Keen has joined Duff & Phelps as the European leader for the firm’s global transfer pricing practice.
-
Tax software company Avalara began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 15.
-
Google India is appealing a court decision that found payments made to Google Ireland should be classified as royalties. Digital companies operating in India fear the negative impact from the decision that could trigger double taxation under India’s equalisation levy.
-
The UK government may be on a collision course with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cayman Islands over plans to introduce public registers of beneficial ownership across UK overseas territories.
-
Andersen Global continues its growth in Latin America with the addition of Lotti e Araujo, a Brazilian corporate law firm with particular expertise in tax litigation, as well as the civil and labour sectors.