Grant Thornton advanced plans to integrate its Australian firm into its US arm, as tax developments spanned law firm hires, aviation levies and digital services taxes
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
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Discovery Communications India’s head of tax, Umang Dhingra, talks to TP Week about how he led the company through nine years of demanding litigation on a permanent establishment case and how the dispute was resolved through an India-US MAP.
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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has identified the use of intangible assets by multinational corporate groups as a key compliance risk for 2018 and has put extra effort into transfer pricing issues involving intangible assets, says TP Week's Australia correspondent David Bell of Deloitte.
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Madeline Gowlett is one of eight lawyers to be promoted by Travers Smith to its partnership, with effect from July 1 2018.
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The taxation of the digital economy and how taxpayers and tax authorities cope with the roll-out of new transfer pricing regimes in the Asia Pacific region dominated the agenda at TP Week and International Tax Review’s Asia Tax Forum in Singapore on May 2-3.
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A new slate of executive officers were elected for the US branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA USA) at its February 23 annual meeting in Houston, the IFA announced on May 7.
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Netflix has told International Tax Review that it is "disappointed" with the EU General Court's ruling in the German state aid case concerning the country of origin principle. The company said the judgment leaves service providers vulnerable to differing tax rules.
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Alexandra Clouté, Philipp Jost, Claire Schmitt, and Benjamin Tempelaere have been promoted to senior associate in the tax law practice at Arendt & Medernach in Luxembourg.
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ITR breaks down the developments that led to the conviction, and subsequent court cases, of former PwC employees Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet, who exposed more than 300 multinational enterprises benefiting from sweetheart tax deals with the Luxembourg authorities to avoid taxes in Europe.
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An EU directive will require intermediaries to report certain cross-border tax arrangements, but advisers point to client confidentiality and privacy laws, and some say the reporting burden will still rest with the taxpayer.
